Senator Petrenko presented a caricature of Charlie Hebdo – RBC

The Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy and Health Care Valentina Petrenko

Photo: Novoderezhkin Anton / TASS

In the picture, which is shown at a press conference in Moscow Petrenko, depicts the people sitting in the pot. Caricature accompanied by two inscriptions: “Charly Ebdo not people: freaks!” And “Hell welcomes Charly Ebdo”, the newspaper “Kommersant».

Thus, the senator, she said, responded to published in Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the crashed Russian airliner A 321 on November 6. One of them shows the wreckage of the plane and the passengers who fall on the head of a terrorist group “Islamic State” (its activities are prohibited in Russia). Text to the image reads: “LIH: Russian aviation bombing intensifies».

According to Petrenko, the authors of the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo «should be shake hands with people. According to her, in international law required an article, which equates works of French cartoonists a criminal offense.

In addition to Petrenko authors of the project, which they called “YaNeSharli”, is also deputy chairman of the State Duma Vadim Solovyov and a member of the Guild of Russian Madina Dobriev lawyers.

Meanwhile, the publication noted that the cartoon image is very similar to Ukrainian artist Yuri Zhuravel, which he put on the Maidan in April 2014. According to the author, sitting in the pot people are not journalists, and former leaders of Ukraine headed by the ex-president, Viktor Yanukovych. Under the boiler in the picture can be seen burning tires, while standing next to a man in helmet and mask with the emblem of Ukraine.

As pointed out on his Twitter journalist, “Kommersant” Alexander Chernykh, assistant Petrenko this similarity explained that “if picture walk on the Internet in the public domain, it can take and use ».

cartoons in Charlie Hebdo immediately after the publication drew criticism from Russian politicians. For example, in the State Duma published in the French weekly cartoon called “blatant cynicism.” Such an opinion was expressed by first deputy speaker Ivan Melnikov told the agency “Interfax”. The head of the Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption Irina Spring called the actions of the magazine Charlie Hebdo «direct encouragement of terrorism».

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.

Later, the chief editor of Charlie Hebdo Gérard Briard Kremlin response to accusations of blasphemy. “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, “- he said.

Briard added that the images associated with the collapse of the A321 in Egypt, were not made for the victims of ridicule, or the very fact of the tragedy. “In these figures, no cartoon characters. We were just commenting on the event and show their views on it “- he said.