The publication of a caricature on the famine raging in Gaza earned the cartoonist Coco death threats, Libération reveals.
Nearly ten years after the terrible attack on Charlie Hebdo, during which the designer Corinne Rey, known as Coco, was taken hostage, she is once again threatened with death, denounces Release in a press release published Tuesday March 12. According to the daily, Coco is targeted by “a wave of threats, insults and intimidation”. At issue: the publication of a caricature which denounces the famine which is currently affecting the Gazans, still bombarded by the Israelis. As the designer regularly does, she also makes fun of the dictates of religions.
While the caricature depicts starving Gazans amid the ruins of a war that has dragged on for five months now, a skeletal figure runs behind two rats, as if they were the only ones left to eat. It was then that a woman slapped him on the hand, saying: “Ttt… Not before sunset”, in reference to the fast observed from sunrise to sunset by practicing Muslims during the month of Ramadan which started this Monday.
In their joint press release, the newspaper’s editorial management and the Society of Journalists and Liberation Staff (SJPL) vigorously defended the intimidation to which Coco was subjected. “These attacks on our colleague must in no way be trivialized, and we assure her of our solidarity and support,” they said. For his part, Charlie Hebdo also gave its support to the cartoonist on on x.