Chief editor of Charlie Hebdo Kremlin response to accusations of blasphemy – RBC

The chief editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Gérard Briard Kremlin response to accusations of blasphemy. For the editorial office there is no concept of blasphemy, because it is a “secular, democratic and atheistic,” he said in an interview with the Russian service of RFI.

«I just do not understand. We – secular, democratic, atheistic newspaper. The concept of blasphemy is not for us to make any difference. We comment on the news, as well as all other publications, “- said the chief editor. According to him, the Kremlin is trying to divert so attention from other problems.

He added that the images associated with the collapse of the A321 in Egypt, were not created to ridicule the victims, or the very fact of the tragedy: “In these figures, there is no caricature characters. We were just commenting on the event and show his gaze on him ».

The magazine on Friday published two pictures related to the collapse of the Russian aircraft in Egypt. One of them shows the wreckage of the plane and the passengers who fall to the terrorist “Islamic state” (the organization banned in Russia). Figure accompanying caption: “LIH: Russian aviation bombing intensifies».

The second figure shows a skull that says, “I wish I flew flight Air Cocaine». The magazine thus reminded of the high-profile case, when on board the aircraft of the French airline had found 700 kg of cocaine.

A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov called the publication blasphemy. “In our opinion, in our country it is called very capacious word” blasphemy “, it has no relation to democracy, no to self-expression. This is blasphemy, “- he said.

Peskov said that” although the time was not enough, fumbled with colleagues, we tried to find a caricature of the staff of the magazine Charlie Hebdo, who were shot by the terrorists. ” “We could not find them. If they were published – it is also blasphemous. At least, that is considered to be in our country, “- said Peskov.

He said that in Russia, this situation is unacceptable,” I do not presume to judge the morals of the French, but in our country it is blasphemy. ” He also expressed doubt that such a publication as Charlie Hebdo, could not exist in Russia and would find support.

Users worldwide mourn for the victims crash A321 Gallery The leaders of various countries have expressed their condolences to the Russians after the collapse in the sky over the Sinai Peninsula of the Airbus A321, the company “Kogalymavia.” His condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad, as well as British Prime Minister, Iraq and Israel and the US Secretary of State John Kerry.
 
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The work of the French magazine were criticized Russian parliamentarians. Thus, the head of the security committee Irina Spring called the actions Charlie Hebdo «direct encouragement of terrorism”, and the head of the international committee of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev said that the cartoons publication – “nothing more than another example of sequential immorality in self-promotion and shamelessly making money on other people’s misfortunes and tragedies ».

The French Foreign Ministry said that the position of the journalists did not reflect the official position of the authorities. The report of the French Foreign Ministry, which was received by the RBC, said that France was one of the first condolences to Russia in connection with the tragedy in Egypt. It also stressed that Paris has refrained from making statements about the possible causes of the tragedy until the investigation is completed.

The aircraft company “Kogalymavia”, carrying out flight from Sharm el Sheikh to St. Petersburg crashed in the Sinai peninsula on October 31. On board were 224 people – 217 passengers and seven crew members. None of them survived.