The French authorities moved on Wednesday to reinforce a clampdown on hate speech and anti-Semitism, as the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo returned defiantly to the newsstands with a depiction of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover, just one week after Islamist gunmen slaughtered 12 people in an attack on its offices.
In
some places, vendors reported that their allotment of the publication
had sold out before daybreak, and demand was so intense that copies of
the newspaper were being offered on eBay for hundreds of dollars. Some
vendors drew up waiting lists of customers in anticipation of new
supplies for a print run that could reach five million, compared with
60,000 before the attacks.
More @ The New York Times
Probably a propaganda hoax to the increase this magazines sales which was
ReplyDeleteon the verge of bankruptcy.
Yes, this worked out well for the magazine. On the brink of bankruptcy and
ReplyDeletewalla, going great guns. How did that work out for you guys? You just can't
make this stuff up.
I didn't know this, but I see they were close to bankruptcy.
DeleteRon Paul also does not understand how the Paris attack happened as the suspects
ReplyDeletewere being monitored for a long time as was the suspects in the Boston Bombing.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/january/12/lessons-from-paris/