Georges Wolinski was one of the four cartoonists slain by terrorists in Paris yesterday. One of the last sketches the French artist drew was about Greece. The cartoon’s theme is the possibility that Greece may be out of the Eurozone in 2015. It shows French President Francois Hollande on a bicycle talking on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Hi Angela. Do not worry! The Greeks have always respected their commitments, they will not leave the Eurozone. We are on the right track,” says the sketch’s first bubble. Then the bike, in the form of 2015, comes to the edge of a cliff with the French President wondering: “Are we on the right track? I would not know until I get to the end…” The terrorist attack that shook the world took place at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo where at least 12 people have been killed, including four of France’s best-known satirical cartoonists. The terrorists acted in response to cartoons about Prophet Muhammad that were considered as offensive by Muslims. Video footage posted in social media showed two hooded, armed gunmen running outside the magazine’s offices, shooting with automatic weapons and shouting “Allahu Akbar.” According to an eyewitness, one of the gunmen shouted: “The Prophet is avenged.” French Police confirmed that the dead included the magazine’s editor and chief cartoonist, Stéphane Charbonnier, known as “Charb,” and Jean Cabut, or “Cabu,” a veteran of several French newspapers and reportedly the highest paid cartoonist in the world. Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac, or “Tignous,” were also reported as having been killed. Charb had previously defended a controversial series of cartoons depicting Prophet Muhammad in 2012, saying: “Muhammad isn’t sacred to me. I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don’t live under Koranic law.” A further 12 people were injured, some gravely, in what is the worst terrorist incident in France in the last 40 years. President Hollande called it a “terrorist attack of the most extreme barbarity.”
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