“Run, run, you bitch … You’ll be slaughtered soon. Your whole family … dead”, “I wish you the worst in your life, you despicable person. They should have liquidated you on January 7th”, “You disgust me, you animal that you are, I don’t know where you come from, but you disgust me to death. I hope a car runs you over one day”, “Shame on you. Hoping the same rats eat your brain. Karma gives it tkt (don’t worry, editor’s note)”. “You are a pathetic excuse for a woman. A vile creature horribly subservient to your Zionist masters. Hell awaits such monstrosities. Fuck you, you filth!” These were the insults and death threats posted on X (formerly Twitter) against the illustrator Corinne Rey, known as “Coco”, who survived the terrorist attack by the Kouachi brothers on the Charlie Hebdo editorial office on the 7th of January 2015.
On Monday of March 11 at 7am, the official account of the newspaper Libération published a cartoon of Coco on the X network, labelled as follows:
“Ramadan in Gaza: beginning of a month of fasting”. In front of the ruins of Gaza, a Palestinian mother taps her young, hungry son on the fingers as he chases after two rats holding a bone and a cut-out human eye between their teeth. “Not before sundown!” she says to her offspring. An obvious allusion to the famine that threatens the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip. According to the United Nations, 2.2 million of the 2.4 million inhabitants in this cramped area are affected by famine with an acute shortage of food and fuel.