Fundador do Charlie diz que o editor "arrastou" a equipa para a morte / Charlie Hebdo founder says slain editor 'dragged' team to their deaths.

Fundador do Charlie diz que o editor "arrastou" a equipa para a morte

Um dos fundadores do jornal satírico acusa Charb, uma das vítimas do atentado da semana passada, de "arrastar a equipa" para a morte, "exagerando" nos cartoons

14:55 Quinta feira, 15 de Janeiro de 2015 | VISÃO

Henri Roussel, 80 anos, contribuiu para a primeira edição do Charlie Hebdo pós-ataque, o número especial que foi ontem para as bancas com uma tiragem de cinco milhões de exemplares. Mas num texto dirigido ao editor assassinado, Stéphane Charbonnier, publicado na revista Nouvel Obs, o fundador afirma que lhe atribui culpas pelo massacre da semana passada.

Considerando-o um "rapaz fantástico", Henri Roussel critica, no entanto, o editor, a quem acusa de teimosia e de arrastar a equipa para o "exagero", referindo-se à capa de 2011, com o profeta Maomé.

"Não o devia ter feito mas Charb voltou a fazê-lo um ano mais tarde, em setembro de 2012", recorda.

A acusação, na edição desta semana da Nouvel Obs, irritou o advogado do Charlie Hebdo há 22 anos, Richard Malka, que respondeu com uma mensagem indignada a um dos donos da Nouvel Obs e do Le Monde.

"O Charb ainda nem foi enterrado e a Obs não encontra nada melhor para fazer do que publicar uma peça polémica e venenosa sobre ele", lamenta. "No outro dia, o editor da Nouvel Obs, Matthieu Croissandeau, não podia chorar mais enquanto dizia que ia continuar a lutar. Não sabia que a ideia era esta", acrescenta.

Croissandeau já respondeu: "Recebemos este texto e depois de um debate decidi publicá-lo numa edição com liberdade de expressão. Parecer-me-ia preocupante censurar esta voz, mesmo sendo discordante, Em particular porque esta voz é uma das pioneiras do grupo".

Esta não é a primeira vez que Roussel discorda publicamente do Charlie moderno, tendo acusado o antecessor de Charbonnier de transformar a publicação num órgão islamofóbico e zionista.

Charlie Hebdo founder says slain editor 'dragged' team to their deaths

A founding member of Charlie Hebdo says slain editor Stéphane Charbonnier "dragged" team to their deaths by "overdoing" provocative cartoons

By Henry Samuel, Paris9:06PM GMT 14 Jan 2015 / http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11346641/Charlie-Hebdo-founder-says-slain-editor-dragged-team-to-their-deaths.html

One of the founding members of Charlie Hebdo has accused its slain editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, or Charb, of “dragging the team” to their deaths by releasing increasingly provocative cartoons, as five million copies of the “survivors’ edition” went on sale.

Henri Roussel, 80, who contributed to the first issue of the satirical weekly in 1970, wrote to the murdered editor, saying: “I really hold it against you.”

In this week’s Left-leaning magazine Nouvel Obs, Mr Roussel, who publishes under the pen name Delfeil de Ton, wrote: “I know it’s not done”, but proceeds to criticise the former “boss” of the magazine.

Calling Charb an “amazing lad”, he said he was also a stubborn “block head”.

“What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it,” he said, referring to Charb’s decision to post a Mohammed character on the magazine’s front page in 2011. Soon afterwards, the magazine’s offices were burned down by unknown arsonists.

Delfeil adds: “He shouldn’t have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in September 2012.”

The accusation sparked a furious reaction from Richard Malka, Charlie Hebdo’s lawyer for the past 22 years, who sent an angry message to Mathieu Pigasse, one of the owners of Nouvel Obs and Le Monde.

“Charb has not yet even been buried and Obs finds nothing better to do that to publish a polemical and venomous piece on him.

“The other day, the editor of Nouvel Obs, Matthieu Croissandeau, couldn’t shed enough tears to say he would continue the fight. I didn’t know he meant it this way. I refuse to allow myself to be invaded by bad thoughts, but my disappointment is immense.”

Matthieu Croissandeau, Nouvel Obs’ editor, said: "We received this text and after a debate I decided to publish it in an edition on freedom of expression, it would have seemed to me worrisome to have censored his voice, even if it is discordant. Particularly as this is the voice of one of the pioneers of the gang."

This is not the first time Delfeil has disagreed with the modern Charlie, accusing Charb’s predecessor of turning it into a Zionist and Islamophobic organ.

That was after Philippe Val, the previous editor, fired one of its historic figures, Maurice Sine, for publishing a cartoon on the marriage of Nicolas Sarkozy’s son, Jean, to a Jewish retailing heiress, which he considered anti-Semitic.

Delfeil said he would not say anymore on recent events. “I have refused to speak to the TV and radio, to everyone. I kept my message for Obs, and I am not prepared to open this subject again,” he said.