What this week's edition was about

January 07, 2015 17:19

The Telegraph reports that this week's Charlie Hebdo featured a story about Michel Houellebecq's new novel, which is out in France today. The book is about a Muslim running France according to the laws of conservative Islam. Submission, Houellebecq's sixth novel, predicts that in 2022 France's mainstream Left and Right club together to back a certain Mohammed Ben Abbes in a second round presidential run-off against Miss Le Pen.

Pic: Journalists from the Charlie Hebdo office take refuge on the roof of the office building.

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