Co-Founder of Charlie Hebdo: Editor ‘Dragged the Team’ to Their Deaths

One of the co-founders of Charlie Hebdo spoke out this week with some harsh words for slain editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier (a.k.a. Charb), accusing him of “dragging the team” to their deaths.

According to The Telegraph, Henri Roussel told the late Charb, “I really hold it against you.” He considers Charb both an “amazing lad” and “block head.”

And then, Roussel goes so far as to say, “What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it… He shouldn’t have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in September 2012.”

A lawyer for the satirical publication blasted the magazine that ran Roussel’s critical piece. The magazine’s editor argued it wouldn’t have been right to censor his thoughts, “even if it is discordant.”

[h/t Mashable]
[image via conejola/Shutterstock]

— —

Follow Josh Feldman on Twitter: @feldmaniac

New: The Mediaite One-Sheet "Newsletter of Newsletters"
Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. Subscribe now!