‘We are Charlie’ declare Swiss newspapers

The media will not be intimidated by the attacks on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – this was the unanimous message from Swiss newspapers on Thursday, a day after 12 people were killed by masked gunmen in Paris.  “Martyrs for freedom of opinion” was the headline in Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger, whose front page cartoon showed two graves, one with a headstone for Charlie Hebdo and one for freedom of speech. A coffin already lay in the Charlie Hebdo grave, but another coffin was refusing to get into the second grave.  “The massacre in Paris threatens to exacerbate the conflict between the fanatics who are responsible and Islamophobic forces in the West,” the paper warned.  “Yesterday in France a shared human characteristic was hit in the heart: the freedom of expression, humour,” it said.  The Tages-Anzeiger called on France and Europe to react to the attacks in the same way that Spain reacted to the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people, including … Show more
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– SWI swissinfo.ch