“Cabu, Wolinski, Charb, Tignous, Honoré, Bernard Maris, Elsa Cayat, Frédéric Boisseau, Franck Brinsolaro, Ahmed Merabet, Mustapha Ourrad, Michel Renaud, Clarissa Jean-Philippe, Philippe Braham, Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, François-Michel Saada : we will never forget you, ”wrote President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday on Twitter, paying tribute to the victims, eight years ago, of the Charlie Hebdo, Montrouge and Hyper Cacher attacks.
Also on Twitter, the head of government Elisabeth Borne also paid tribute to the victims. “Faced with Islamist terrorism, the Republic stands tall. For their families, for our values, for our freedom: let us not forget,” she wrote.
Diplomatic crisis
A ceremony took place in front of the former premises of Charlie Hebdo, in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the presence in particular of the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
Eight years later, the French satirical newspaper found itself this week at the heart of a diplomatic crisis after the publication of cartoons on the Iranian regime deemed insulting by Tehran.
Iran announced Thursday the closure of the oldest and most important French study center in the country, the French Institute for Research in Iran (IFRI), affiliated with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.