11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[garbon]

Worst...or best?

[Liep]

So the only French comedian I've heard about has been arrested for saying: "Je suis Charlie Coulibaly." Dieudonne seems immediately like a douchebag, but arresting him for that comment might give the freedom of speech haters a reason to call France for hypocrites.

EDIT: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/french-comedian-dieudonne-charlie-coulibaly-prosecutor

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, that's Vall and Hollande for you, they hold a grudge against this comedian with a history of antisemitic trolling, best ignored as under Sarkozy, (quenelle is not a big issue IMO), so they exploit the situation for political purposes. This most unpopular government has a justice minister who tried to ban a book because it spoke in detail about the intra-african and oriental (turco-arab) slave trade. So yes, this government is no friend of freedom of expression, but they only represent themselves, until the next election.

Besides, they only opened an investigation, Dieudonné has not been arrested yet, Dieudonné has been sued a lot of the times and at worst got fines, mostly for tax reasons (tax dodging).

edit: checking from French sources they really placed Dieudonné in custody. It's nice to see where this government's priorities are 

[Martinus]

This is in fact an irony - the US is probably the country with the broadest freedom of speech (although I am not sure what the situation is now with various anti-terrorism and anti-bullying laws), and yet noone attended the march - whereas pretty much every leader marching there came from a country where you can get jailed for saying certain things. And it's not just Saudi Arabia or Turkey (which both sent a high ranking official) but Poland (where you can get jailed for "offending religious sensibilities" aka "blasphemy").

[Razgovory]

We are also on the other side of the world.

[Martinus]

We are also on the other side of the world.

I didn't mean it as a blame, more like a genuine irony.

[CountDeMoney]

It's ironic we're on the other side of the world.

[Eddie Teach]

We are also on the other side of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox_hgSBOA1o

[garbon]

The latest issue of Charlie Hebdo had people lining up for it and was completely sold out.

[Malthus]

The latest issue of Charlie Hebdo had people lining up for it and was completely sold out.

Shareholders and creditors of failing magazines everywhere are taking note ...     

[Grey Fox]

The latest issue of Charlie Hebdo had people lining up for it and was completely sold out.

It usually has a 60k run, apparently they printed 5 millions this week. I'd buy one.

[garbon]

Buzzfeed had that 700k sold out today and that they are planning print run of 5 mil (originally had been 3 mil for this issue)

[Monoriu]

I'd buy one.

They don't have a free online edition? 

[Eddie Teach]

Do they have an English language version?

[Liep]

Do they have an English language version?

Yes, it's out in English and something like 8 other languages too. I don't know if it'll be distributed in America, but you can buy it on ebay!