12/1/2015- “We refuse to let Pegida profit from the memory of our colleagues”, a spokesman for the cartoonists told DPA. Organizers of the Pegida marches – an acronym for “Patri-otic Europeans against the Islamization of the West” – have leapt onto the Paris attacks as a chance to boost their numbers. They called on participants in their planned demonstra-tion on Monday evening to wear black armbands in mourning for the murdered journalists and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo. But the French illustrators – including one Charlie Hebdo employee, Dutch cartoonist Willem, who survived the attacks because he was out of the office – say that Pegida stands for everything their colleagues hated. “We, the French and francophone illustrators, are appalled by the murder of our friends. “And we’re disgusted that far-right forces are trying to instrumentalize their deaths for their own purposes,” they wrote. One caricature shows a hyena, a jackal and a vulture sniffing at blood seeping out from the door of the Charlie Hebdo office.
I CARE – – French caricaturists target German Pegida marchers
