While the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, sadly become world famous since the attack of which he was the target in 2015, is again at the heart of a wave of hostility against him, Richard Malka recalled the importance of freedom of expression. At the microphone of Europe 1, the emblematic lawyer of the newspaper said he was proud: “It is really the symbol of freedom which does not bend, whatever the risks and dangers which we know better than anyone. “, he confided.
A fight “against oppression and for emancipation”
From his pleading, the lawyer made a book, Treaty on Intolerance, and since recalls his fight “for freedoms, against oppression, for emancipation and against this regime which kills its own children”. On Sunday, several dozen Iranians gathered outside the French Embassy in Tehran, where they burned French flags, to protest against the cartoons of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic published in Charlie Hebdo.
For Richard Malka, the newspaper embodies a fight “against the mullahs who claim they cannot be caricatured as they bathe in the blood of executions, of women killed, raped simply because they want to walk with their hair in the wind”. “It’s true that the addition is damn heavy, but what else do you want to do?”, He adds.
The caricature is for him a way of laughing, a peaceful weapon to help the Iranians against the dictatorship. “They give us an example to follow, they fight at the risk of their lives. […] These mullahs will go down in history as executioners and their names will remain associated with a bloodthirsty regime,” the lawyer concludes.