Charlie Hebdo to reprint Muhammad cartoons on eve of trial

The cover will also show a caricature of the prophet by Jean Cabut, who died in the attack
The cover will also show a caricature of the prophet by Jean Cabut, who died in the attack
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Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine, will republish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on the eve of the trial of alleged accomplices of the Islamists who massacred its staff in 2015.

Laurent Sourisseau, the editor, said that the trial was a fitting time for a show of determination in the face of the intolerance that led the brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi to murder 12 people at Hebdo’s offices on January 7, 2015.

The accused are 14 alleged associates of the brothers, who died in a shootout with police, and of Amedy Coulibaly, who murdered four people at a Jewish supermarket and a police officer later in the week of the Hebdo attack.

“We will never give up,” Sourisseau wrote in an