PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, January 7: In this special edition, we look at the press from France and abroad on the 10-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. They wonder what is left of the "I am Charlie" support campaign and how attitudes towards satire have changed in the decade since the atrocity.

On January 7, 2015, eight staff members of Charlie Hebdo and four others were killed in a that attack that began a year of terror in France. The terrorists claimed to be seeking revenge for caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the magazine.

A decade later, Charlie Hebdo is still there. "Indestructible", it says on its front page, pointing to a survey that shows 76 percent of French people believe freedom of expression and satire are fundamental rights. That's more than the 58 percent back in 2012. For Charlie Hebdo, the attacks were a moment of truth which tested the strength of its ideas, despite facing threats and criticism today.

"Liberté", Liberté", Charlie !" says left-wing daily Libération says on its front page, running an illustration by Coco, one of the surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. The paper's newsroom had taken in the surviving Charlie Hebdo staff members the day after the attacks in 2015. For Libé, the terrorists did not win that day. However, a "yes, but" mindset has since taken over and is slowly killing freedom of expression, it says. The editor deplores self-censorship, describing it as a poison that's killed secularism.

L'Humanité, the Communist paper, goes for a poignant front page: "They were Charlie", it says, paying tribute to slain colleagues Cabu, Tignous, Charb, Wolinski, Elsa Cayat and Bernard Maris.

French right-wing paper L'Opinion points to that same survey mentioned on Charlie Hebdo's front page. It wonders: Can we say and satirise anyone in the name of freedom of expression? Among those surveyed, 71 percent of people aged between 25 and 34 say no, something the paper finds extremely worrying. 

La Croix, the Catholic paper, says younger generation appear more critical of satirical humour when it attacks religious, but more accepting of it when it satirises news and politics.

What's left of the Charlie spirit? 

One of the biggest changes in last decade is how the press, initially sympathetic to Charlie Hebdo, has gradually moved to criticising its editorial line. British news and opinion website UnHerd points to Libération recently expressing scepticism for Charlie Hebdo and even suggesting it is at times guilty of racism. Why have even those on the left – traditional supporters of Charlie Hebdo – abandoned the publication? A host of reasons are suggested: cowardice, legitimate fear for their lives and more cynically, progressive politicians' eagerness to court the Muslim vote. 

The Economist went to meet Riss, one of the survivors of the Charlie Hebdo attacks and who took over its editorship in the aftermath. For the magazine, Charlie Hebdo is unbowed and unrepentant and "as tasteless, silly and provocative as ever." However, self-censorship, rather than the law, now tempers satire, The Economist says. For his part, editor Riss sees Charlie Hebdo as not extraordinarily provocative but says it appears so today because the margin of tolerance is narrowing.

Belgian paper Le Soir deplores the fact in its view that the Charlie Hebdo spirit has been forgotten. "I am Charlie", it says, was about cultivating contradictions, opposing laws that restricted freedom, refusing fatwas and using humour against dogma, against authoritarianism and against idiots.

Swiss paper Le Temps' cartoonist Chappatte sums it up ironically: In 2015, people protested, saying freedom of expression was sacred. Ten years later, that message is still the same but with the disclaimer: Freedom of expression, as long as it doesn't offend anyone.

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