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Charlie Hebdo pushes for Panthéon tribute to murdered cartoonist Charb

“I would rather die standing than live on my knees,” said Charb, the Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who has become a symbol of France’s fight for free expression. AFP/FRANCOIS GUILLOT

Coming a decade after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack, a new campaign is calling for murdered cartoonist Charb to be honoured in France’s Panthéon as a symbol of freedom of expression and republican values.

Ten years after the jihadist attack that decimated the newsroom of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical magazine and the family of its late cartoonist Charb are calling for him to be laid to rest among France’s national heroes in the Panthéon.

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