Since 2015, the turbulent historical past of the left round secularism and Islam | EUROtoday

In Pontoise, in Val-d’Oise, on January 16, 2015, tons of of individuals got here to pay their final respects to Charb. Nine days earlier, the cartoonist was shot lifeless within the small editorial workplace of Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, alongside eleven companions in misfortune, all of whom fell underneath the Kalashnikov bullets of the Kouachi brothers.

After the astonishment, it’s time for disappointment and contemplation. This January 16, in thick silence, Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivers his buddy’s funeral oration in a distressed voice. “Charb, you were assassinated by our oldest, our cruelest, our most constant, our most narrow-minded enemies, the religious fanatics, bloody cretins, who vociferate of all time”he says in entrance of the coffin. The tribune additionally cites the “secularism ridiculed” and the “mocked secularists” that Charb defended. “Thank you comrade”, he cries.

On January 11, Jean-Luc Mélenchon participated within the nice Republican march, alongside the complete French political world, a bunch of international heads of state, including his grief to that expressed by the tide of nameless folks. took to the streets, in assist of Charlie. Some reluctance had been effectively expressed within the interstices of the mental left, nevertheless it had gone unnoticed. The time has now come for nationwide unity and republican communion.

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