French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo to feature Mohammed pictures
Paris (dpa) - Charlie Hebdo, the French satire magazine attacked by gunmen last week, will feature cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in its next edition, French news media said late Monday.
The cover shows a turbanned man weeping under the caption "All is forgiven," in French, holding a sign saying "I am Charlie," according to a draft published by Liberation daily online.
The French slogan "je suis Charlie" emerged as a message of solidarity after two masked gunmen killed 12 people at the magazine's office Wednesday, shouting "Allah is great" and "We have avenged the prophet."
"There has not been one edition of Charlie Hebdo, in 22 years, that has not had caricatures of the pope, Jesus, priests or rabbis, imams and Mohammed," Richard Malka, a lawyer for the magazine, was quoted as saying.
"The surprising thing would be if there were not" any drawings of Mohammed in the next one, he said.
The upcoming edition, to be published Wednesday, will have a print run of 3 million, the report said, up from an earlier announced run of 1 million, and far in excess of the weekly magazine's usual circulation of 60,000.
It was also to be translated into 16 languages.
The assailants, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, aged 32 and 34,were tracked down and killed by police Friday north of Paris.
