French Satirical Weekly’s Special Edition to Feature Sacrilegious Cover
The blasphemous cover features a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, accompanied by the text: "One year on: the assassin is still out there.”
One million copies of the special edition will be available on newsstands on Wednesday, with tens of thousands more to be sent overseas, The Guardian reported.
It will mark a year since brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi burst into Charlie Hebdo’s offices in eastern Paris and killed 12 people, including eight of the magazine’s staff.
The attack on 7 January 2015, claimed by al-Qaida’s branch in the Arabian Peninsula, came after a 2011 firebombing of its offices that forced it to move premises. Its staff had also been under police protection since it published cartoons lampooning prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in 2006.
