Patrick Malka, the longstanding lawyer who has represented Charlie Hebdo magazine for more than two decades, has signaled the show will go on. The publication, while dealt a serious and tragic blow last week, will forge ahead in the spirit of its ten fallen colleagues who died in last Thursday’s terrorist attack in downtown Paris. Indeed, the surviving journalists and cartoonists plan to continue publishing the satirical weekly.
According to The Lawyer, “The next issue, out this Wednesday, will include cartoons on Muhammad as well as taking aim at politics and religion,” Malka announced this morning when discussing Wednesday’s print run of 1m copies.”
“‘We are not giving anything up,’ he said. ‘The spirit of ‘Je suis Charlie’ means also having the right to blaspheme.’ He added that there is never the right to criticise a Jew because he is a Jew, for instance, or a Muslim because he is a Muslim but that the religions themselves can be the subject of any kind of comment.”
Mr. Malka – who has acted for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the wife of former President Nicolas Sarkozy – is seen as an expert in privacy and media laws.
