Cartoonist remembers 'shock' of Charlie Hebdo attack 10 years on

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To mark the tenth anniversary of the January 2015 attacks in France, cartoonist Lacombe talks to AFP about the "shock" of the deadly attack by Islamist gunmen on the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people died in the attacks, including eight editorial staff, while a separate but linked hostage-taking at a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris by a third gunman on January 9, 2015, claimed another four lives.

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00:00I don't know if it's out yet.

00:07No, but when?

00:15Yeah, yeah, there's a shocking side to it.

00:24We share our fear, our desire to draw, our desire to react.

00:29It was a shock.

00:31I have colleagues in Charlie,

00:37friends who are more or less close to me,

00:41so there was a side to it where we all felt touched.

00:59It's quite strange, because after 2015,

01:23the press designers were elevated to the level of heroes of democracy,

01:29with a lot of interest and things like that.

01:31The wind blew quite quickly.

01:33When you see the sales of Charlie Hebdo or newspapers in general,

01:39you think that it has fallen quite quickly.

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