Posting this despite not appreciating their cartoons. Mr. Charbonnier was a staunch left-wing activist, raised in a family of communists, Mr. Leconte said. “He has this education, and this culture, which was one part of his personality, but at the same time he was totally radical.” Mr. Charbonnier’s insistence on publishing depictions of the prophet was not about religious ideology. It was, Mr. Leconte said, about “freedom, liberté.” “He was free man. He did not want to have obstructions in the way of thinking. He just wanted to express. Freedom of speech.”
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