How Charlie Hebdo created the cover that made them a terrorist target

Back in 2006 , Jérôme Lambert and Philippe Picard made this short documentary showing the creative mental process behind thefirst masking that made the fanatic to target Charlie Hebdo , a powder store that I used to read when I was a student in France . A unique feeling into a creative procedure that will surprise many Americans .

At least that ’s my effect . Reading some of the things that have been written in the United States about these guys and their magazine , I ’m sure that some of you think that these people were a bunch of irresponsible racist frat boys salute beer and farting sketch in some basement in Paris .

Nothing further from the truth . In reality , these were educated people who had been contend for freedom of facial expression and the rights of the people against the powerful — being them banks , corporation , scurrilous governments , or fanatics with gun — for decades . A tradition of political irony that is plebeian to many other animated cartoon magazine in Europe — but sadly not in politically correct America .