Charlie Hebdo makes a cover with an elevator to discharge. The long history of your unworthy covers

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo uses on the cover of its latest edition the tragic accident of the Glory Elevator as a metaphor to portray the serious political crisis that France is going through. This is not the first time that the publication goes to the newsstands with a cover that oscillates between bad and the unworthy.

The cover of this week’s edition of French satirical magazine shows a Image of the Elevator of Glory to Decarlarcarrying inside the main figures of French politics.

Cartoon takes advantage of the tragic derailment to portray the serious political crisis that France is going through.

The illustration puts the president as passengers Emmanuel Macronthe former prime minister François Bayrouthe leader of the far right Marine Le Penthe president of the Senate Gérard Larcherthe interior minister Bruno Retailleau e o founder of the leftist leftist France France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The elevator, with the iconic yellow color of the Funicular Lisboeta, appears in free fall, with loose cables and bolts in several directions.

O slogan “Let’s unlock everything!“Accompanies the image, alluding to the protest movement” Let’s Block Everything “that in recent days has mobilized thousands of French protesters in protests on the streets, following Monday, after the lead of the confidence motion in Parliament.

It’s not the first time that Charlie Hebdo leaves the newsstands with controversial and provocative covers, which oscillate between mere bad taste and simply unworthy – Although in a satirical context that is part of the DNA of the French publication.

In 2023, the magazine made England, crowned with a blondewith a caption in which the children William and Harry say that “even the mother (Diana) came!”. In 2021, he portrayed.

Over the years, the magazine has generated controversy several times in France, especially the cover with; na and in racism; in Italy, with one that killed 300 people in August 2016; In Russia after, which killed 224 people.

In January 2016, the magazine did, the Syrian boy who in 2015 on a Turkish beach, with a cartoon that claims that if he had not died if he would have become Rabbling in Germany. It was not the first time that Charlie.

In March 2016, the French satirical magazine Indignated Belgium with one Cover with Brussels attackswhich caused the death of 35 people, who has a caricature with.

The caricature of the Brussels attack went to newsstands just over a year after the January 2015, executed by strongly armed Islamic terroristswho did not respect the creative freedom of the cartoonists that often, and thought that the image of the prophet has more value than human life.

In the attack on the French magazine, almost as many as the 16 Mortal Victims of the Glory Elevator Accidentmuch less than those that perished in the earthquake of Italy or the Brussels attack.

For the caricaturists of Charlie Hebdo, A cover image has more value than a dignity of people who lost their lives. For those who understand that freedom of expression has limits, it is intolerable. And even those who think humor has no red lines is at least extremely unpleasant.