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Saudi Arabia says 'I am Charlie' but it is not': Charlie Hebdo cartoonist attacks hypocrisy of leaders who marched in name of free speech but censor their press
- Cartoonist Luz survived Charlie Hebdo massacre because he was late
- In his on-camera interview he speaks at length about that day's events
- Describes how he saw his friends laying dead on the floor of their office
- Also criticises leaders who march for free speech but censor their press
The
cartoonist Renald 'Luz' Luzier has given his first on-camera interview
about the day of the massacre, how he missed death by minutes and
criticised world leaders for hypocrisy over press freedoms.
Seventeen
people, including journalists and police, were killed in three days of
violence that began on January 7 when militants burst into Charlie
Hebdo's office during a regular editorial meeting and shot dead five of
its leading cartoonists.
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Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald 'Luz' Luzier spoke about the day of the massacre in his first filmed interview
The
filmed interview took place in his sniper-proof flat in Paris, and
throughout the interview Luz becomes visibly more and more distressed.
Interviewed
for Vice by reporter Milene Larsson, he said : 'There are cartoonists
in France who say "we can no longer draw things that could offend
someone elsewhere in the world" - but if we take into account the
positions and opinions of the whole world, we might as well tear up our
drawings. It is over.'
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