The Charlie Hebdo I Know

January 12, 2015 16:20

This weekend, in white block letters projected against the darkened upper facade of the Arc de Triomphe, one could read the words, 'PARIS EST CHARLIE'. Mayor Anne Hidalgo had announced on Friday that Charlie Hebdowould be made an "honorary citizen" of Paris, a title reserved, she said, "for the most illustrative defenders of human rights throughout the world."

The eight slain members of the publication, and four others who died with them, were heroes, Hidalgo told the assembled city government that morning, fighting to uphold the right to freedom of speech. That right, she said, is "sacred."

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