A year ago, a group of armed Islamists stormed the premises of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, and opened fire. 11 journalists were killed and one policeman. The next two were killed another five people, including four – with the release of hostages held in a Jewish grocery store in the east of Paris.
And, judging by the cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, a year, nothing has changed .
“The killer is still at large,” reads the signature to the drawing, which depicts a god with a Kalashnikov, whose white clothes spattered with blood.
Charlie Hebdo claims the world that the magazine he is still alive, still printed, still ignore the ban, and the object of his satire, still remains organized religion.
“I think that over the past year has changed nothing except who settled in our emptiness, – said the editor of Gerard Bear – We miss our colleagues, our friends, their talent, but we try to keep the spirit of the magazine. I think we did it “.
But France Overall, of course, has changed. The country returned to work after the Christmas holidays with a feeling of deep-seated anxiety, pressed down by the memory of the tragic events overshadowed the New Year.
“They live in darkness”
During the ten years before the tragedy of the last year edition of Charlie Hebdo constantly received death threats.
You this sense and to this day, nothing has changed, but the change in attitude to these threats: No one else finds them empty words.
The magazine is still printed, but he had to move to another room with a serious protection.
The guards escorted the magazine staff to work on interviews and home after the working day.
“They are living behind closed blinds, they live in darkness” – he said I am one of the editors of the French newspaper, who knows the editors Charlie.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo
The very wording also changed.
The main cartoonists of the magazine Luz and Riess said last year that no longer draw the Prophet Muhammad. Luz in the journal does not work anymore, he resigned, saying he could not continue to work without their fallen colleagues.
columnist Patrick Peloux also promised to resign after internal disputes over who will control the editorial policy and dispose of a lot of money, filled with cash journal as soon as a survivor of the tragedy of the magazine was in the spotlight.
Managing Editor Gerard Bear says that after the magazine has turned into a symbol of the international fight against terror, it began to be criticized for the provocative and controversial style. We hear many calls to respect other people’s views and different faith.
But he disagrees: “What many people call respect, in fact, it is fear. They’re trying to find some logical explanation for all these explosions , shooting, killings. But this is as impossible as to count all the stars in the universe. Totalitarianism does not need a reason. Maybe people realize it, but the fear of it is not going anywhere “.
attitude changed
The debate about how to deal with such a fear, flared up after more bloody terrorist attacks in November last year that killed 130 people.
poll Opinions held shortly after the event showed that 90% of French people are in favor of the extension of the state of emergency and put all radicals under house arrest. The number of people supporting the bombing of Syrian positions in the group “Islamic State”, increased by 20%.
After two terrorist attacks in January and November, the security measures in France is clearly increased. Now, about 11 thousand soldiers patrol the streets of French cities, with more than half of these troops are in Paris. The ranks of the police rose by a third to 80 thousand people.
As the representative of the French Police Public Relations Stanislas Houdon, shortly after the January terrorist attacks it became clear that the public’s attitude to the police change.
“It was nice to hear the 11 January during demonstrations in support of the magazine crowd cheered police cars. People have realized that the police are the last line of defense against terrorism. It was a real breakthrough in relations between the police and the French, especially young people. I think that now people are happy with us, “- said Stanislas Houdon.
One of the Parisians said this week in a conversation with a journalist with BBC BBC that feels more secure in public places such as, for example, railway stations.
“In France, safety is freedom – he said – in England, I think, is still freedom above security”.
“I have just returned after two years absence, – said another – a very strange feeling when you see soldiers and guards in stores. But to live it is necessary! “
New terrorism
There are voices who believe that the lessons of history with Charlie Hebdo were never recovered. With France remains a hostage in the hands of their own extremists and extremists from neighboring countries.
Xavier Rufe, terrorism expert from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRF) has warned the French government that it must change the methods to combat threats facing modern society.
He said that after the shooting in Toulouse, which gave Mohammed Mera four years back, no excuse, no one foresaw the tragedy last year.
“Since 2012, we have to deal with a completely new form of terrorism – Xavier Rufe told me. – These are small organized groups polugangsterov-poluterroristov who return to Islam or accept it, and begin to lay a bomb. Everything happens incredibly fast. There are guys willing to die in the name of Islam, which did not even read the Koran. The process is the speed of light, even 10 years ago, was nothing like this “.
The rate at which petty criminals are, according Rufe” human bombs “is one of the main challenges facing France and other European countries.
He said that the security services are stuck in a time when the enemy was the “elite” of the terrorist world – people like Bin Laden. In fact, the future of terror are young people, such as brothers Kuashi (responsible for attacks against Charlie Hebdo), or brothers Abdeslam (involved in the November bombings), who have lived their lives in the poor suburbs of European cities.
“I’m angry at France”
France began the year the memories of the victims of the November terrorist attacks. One of the women who survived the capture of the Jewish shop, he told French reporters about how she managed to cope with the experienced, and how she reacted to an even greater tragedy of November.
Dawn was standing behind the counter when the store came armed with automatic weapons Amedie Coulibaly. Over the next hour in her eyes, some hostages were killed.
After the events of November, she said, “everything seems to start anew, as if I was taken hostage for a second time”.
Two weeks Dawn was afraid to leave the house. She thought that she would be killed if she ventures out to buy bread.
“I’m angry with France, – she says. – As if the death in January was not enough! They waited that dozens of people were killed, before realizing the danger posed by terrorism. I do not trust anyone “.
Followed by January events are widely dispersed throughout France, influencing such completely different issues such as migration and the regulation of the Internet. Furthermore, they have changed something in the most national psychology. The French have realized that the fight against terrorism continues, and that the country has entered a completely new era.
“The whole year I’ve been told that this will never happen again – says Dawn – but I told them no longer believe” .
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