This week saw the 5th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack on the Parisian weekly satirical Charlie Hebdo. France and cartoonists worldwide remember.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/france-remembers-charlie-hebdo-victims-anniversary-200107164754227.html

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The cartoonists and satirists of #CharlieHebdo never wanted to be martyrs for #freespeech. This Washington Post piece from 2018 looks at the uneasy fit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/a-terrorist-attack-turned-charlie-hebdo-into-a-revered-institution-it-never-sought-to-be/2018/05/25/c5a392d8-4e11-11e8-85c1-9326c4511033_story.html

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Five years after the massacre, many cartoonists think satire is in trouble and that the terrorists won — aided by fearful editors, cowardly censors, cynical politicians, and an angry public. The feeling of unity under “Je Suis Charlie” is gone say some.

https://www.celebsnet.com/breaking/Five-years-after-the-attack-on-Charlie-Hebdo-je-suis-Charlie-feeling-is-gone-h5684.html

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Finally — even as politicians and censors clamp down on #FreeSpeech, France plans to build a “centre dedicated to satirical cartoons”

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/france-to-create-house-of-press-and-satirical-cartoons

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The Daily Cartoonist has a roundup of the roundups as cartoonists mark this tragic anniversary.

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/01/07/je-suis-charlie-cinq-ans-apres/