House of Press Cartoons coming in 2027, says French culture chief Dati

Paul Myers
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Rachida Dati, France's Minister of Culture, confirmed a building to house an array of newspaper and magazine cartoons would open in 2027.

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati confirmed on Saturday that a museum containing a collection of newspaper and magazine cartoons will open in France in 2027 some five years behind schedule.

President Emmanuel Macron announced plans in 2020 for a House of Press Cartoons during his New Year's address to the nation.

But the proposals to open the collection in 2022 were held up due to the coronavirus pandemic.

And as France prepares to mark 10 years since terror attacks targeting satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket left 17 people dead in Paris, Dati said on social media that the idea proposed by one of the victims in the slaughter would see the light of day in 2027.

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"Press cartoons are an elaborate and precious form of democratic impertinence that we must defend," Dati added. "In 2025, the commitment made by the President of the Republic will be kept."

Georges Wolinski, who had been advocating a similar museum since 2007, was among the 11 people who were murdered when brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015.

A 12th person was killed as the duo made their getaway. A day later, Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman in Montrouge to the south of Paris and on 9 January shot dead four hostages at a Jewish supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. The three men, who died in shoot-outs with police, claimed allegiance to terrorist organisations.

The Kouachis said they carried out a revenge assault after the magazine published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.


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