“Italian Earthquake”, the scandal cartoon of Charlie Hebdo – BBC

Today no one is” Charlie Hebdo “. Solidarity after the attacks that hit the newspaper in January of 2015 it melts on social, leaving more visceral indignation space. Sparked by the cartoon that the weekly newsstand dedicated to the earthquake in Italy. In the image, entitled ‘SEISME to the Italienne “(” Italian Earthquake “) victims of the earthquake that devastated our country are compared to three dishes typical of our culture,” all’arrabbiata Pens’, illustrated with a man covered in blood; “Penne au gratin” with a survivor covered with dust; while the lasagne are layers of pasta alternating with bodies remained under the rubble.

Macabre puns

the cartoon signed by the cartoonist Felix is ​​published on the last page of the current issue of the satirical magazine, which has a cover cartoon on burkinis’ the sack of potatoes that combines the left. ” Down the newspaper, in the traditionally page titled “covers other possible”, the disaster in Italy is dealt with puns like: “Approximately 300 dead in an earthquake in Italy. Still we do not know that the earthquake has shouted “Allah Akbar” before hitting “.

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“I do not represent us”

The controversy exploded . And little avail the official apology of transalpine diplomacy. “The drawing published by Charlie Hebdo is absolutely not the position of France,” he said in a note to the French Embassy in Rome, which stresses that the August 24 earthquake is “an immense tragedy” and renews his condolences to the authorities and to Italian people, to whom “has offered his help.”

Indignation

on Twitter are plenty of those who judge the cartoon «shocking», «indecent» ask respect for the victims. There are those who publish the picture next to the words “I’m not Charlie.” Who comments: “Today Hebdo has messed great,” and “What there is to laugh about this cartoon then there you explain.” But also those who defend the choice ( “We are all Charlie until Charlie teases us”) and says: “If you do not touch the belly is not satire. It’s just a meaningless design “. Finding, perhaps, the most scandalous, “the silly interviews, the show went on stage of morbid pain these days.” It is short reopen the debate on the boundaries of irony. Respect, bad taste and freedom of expression, censorship: each network has its say. “The #CharlieHebdo cartoons are there to be ashamed of who is” hit. ” They do it to work, do not forget, ‘says a Twitter user. While interpretation accusation of “functional illiteracy” all those who have not capitole intentions of the authors of the cartoon: “Buildings constructed with sand (” pens gratinées “) that when collapse are reduced and reduce you to layers of lasagna. Here are the Italian earthquake – writes Pasquale Videtta – in which not even the earthquake-resistant schools are such. Functional illiteracy is that thing that makes you swap the Charlie Hebdo cartoon for a mockery of the victims of the earthquake and not for a political and social protest. ”

“Nothing to laugh»

“It’s a vignette in which I find nothing to laugh at,” said the Commissioner for reconstruction after the earthquake Vasco Errani . “I am living this situation with the population – said – and I am sure that people who are experiencing this tragedy do not find anything to say, and laugh like me. The sticker increases the suffering of these people. “

” Now the excuses “

Discouragement by the mayor of Amatrice, Sergio Pirozzi : “But how do you make of satire on the dead? Satire is satire when it makes you laugh, and here it seems to me that there is nothing to laugh about, since it’s full of the dead. ” Of course Charlie Hebdo is not the first thought of the mayor of the town devastated by the quake. And for a while ‘Pirozzi was uninterested in the question. But then, in front of reporters that urging him, he blurted out: “Satire is a beautiful thing, so be it irony. But how do you … here there is only the bad taste. ” With him is also expressed politics: “Vignette eerie, inhuman, unworthy, to be returned to the sender,” he writes in a statement the deputy Pd Vanna Iori . Giorgia Meloni , President of Brothers of Italy, on his Facebook account liquidates the story this way: “It’s not funny, it’s not wise, there is not even the” black sarcasm “. It’s just bad. You see that made her an idiot. I’m sorry I have not been able to find more cartoonists are able. ” He Michele Anzaldi (Pd), asks an official apology: “We expect that France, starting from its institutions – said – will distance itself from a cartoon that renews the pain in many Italian families who have suffered the serious earthquake mourning. ” Excuses that the French ambassador was quick to transmit.

September 2, 2016 (modified September 2, 2016 | 17:15)

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