The wave of Charlie Hebdo reached the US, where the French weekly’s survivors issue had not sold more than three hundred copies and all the US newspapers had refused to republish the drawings.
While in Texas an Islamist commando tried to hit a cartoon competition, at the PEN Club of New York it was the thing to boycott a prize to Charlie.
A high school teacher from the French town of Poitiers, Jean-François Chazerans, is under disciplinary proceedings for speaking in class and saying: “These rascals of Charlie Hebdo have got what they deserved”. It goes without saying that most of the high school teachers went out on strike when Chazerans was suspended and not when another colleague, “the Islamophobic” Robert Redeker went into hiding. Libération, the French leftist daily, defended the professor’s opinion.