Five years after the terrorist attack on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, support for the cartoonists from the media and the public is conducted, " says the internationally renowned cartoonist, Tjeerd Royaards at NU.nl.
"That I'm in the Netherlands, especially to the people who are at a faster pace than offended. They have to be very, very angry about the satire, which they don't agree with them. Which is surprising to me. I think that a healthy public debate, very much from the confrontation with sharp minds, and maybe even defamatory opinions, which you don't agree with it."
"Especially if you're there, with arguments, instead of yelling, and violence against them is. I'm going as an artist is not necessarily more work, but I have better things to do think about who is offended by a certain design that would be able to take it. You have to create a set of trade-offs."
"It's one of the few, if not the only area in the Netherlands, of which violence is a realistic consequence of all this is. It is a large, and it is very sad to have to say that, five years after the terrorist attack on the editorial office of Charlie Hebdo, no change has come. We are no more free for us to criticize islam, the prophet's drawing. The status quo is the twelve deaths have not changed."
The attack on Charlie Hebdo On 7 January, 2015 urging Said and Chérif Kouachi, the redactiekantoor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The brothers open fire on the authors and contributors of the magazine. There are eleven dead. On the same day, killing Amedy Coulibaly, four people in a Jewish grocery store in Paris, france. The three terrorists, two days later, the French police and shot dead.
"For the most part. I even doubted whether I am not just a drawing, would recycle it and the plate on which the drawing would be replaced by the year 2020. The feeling has also subsided." (Royaards, this being shortly after the interview, well done, ed.).
"I think it's a kind of misplaced solidarity, it was. What you saw was that people in the first week, going on to the streets in order to carry out and how important we are for freedom of speech and expression will find. The number of subscribers to Charlie Hebdo, went from thirty thousand to two million."
"What you saw happen, is that people suddenly saw what, for him, the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo actually have it. Some of the plans in time to come. People were not at all what Charlie Hebdo was before them, je suis Charlie called."
"I don't Know. I think it makes more sense to have it in the normal, rational people continue to insist as to why we have freedom of the press and freedom of expression are necessary, and that the satire is an essential part of our democracy and freedom."
"I'm not under the illusion that I am a terrorist can be convinced, but I do think, however, that if we, as a society, as a powerful tool in the hands of, as we continue to communicate the importance of that freedom."
"on the one Hand, or, as this is the policy there. Especially in the buitenlandpolitiek. But I do think I will at the same time, extremely disturbing, that people like Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet, the press has been portrayed as the enemy who have their own leftist agenda on hold."
"Claudia de Breij said" it's beautiful, in its year-old conference, " What did you're going to need to be a democracy? A majority of people who take into account the wishes of the minority, as an independent rule of law and the freedom of the press.' As soon as the political parties are going to argue that that is freedom of the press is the enemy of democracy, then something huge is wrong with the system."
"I haven't signed up and I'm hoping that I'm at all the time I have in between all of the mediabelletjes. I think that the priority today is to the media attention. There are a lot of cartoonists who are today's draw something."
"That's great, and as a cartoonist, I feel, of course, also the desire to have something to show, but the question is, what is it you should be able to add to it. Maybe I can create something amazing that will make people think, but in a different dimension it give it I can do it."
"The ones around the day, you can be in three categories, are divided: the first one is more emotional:" What was it really. The second is: "But the cartoonists have been very, very resilient", and then you can see the drawings on which is a pencil with a type of weapon that the terrorists can be combated. The third category is to alert the cartoonists for the increasing of the censorship. They point to the threat that we have in the past few years, an increasing degree of experience, allowing for the freedom of the press, continue to decline."
"That's what I think, personally, though. Once again, I think it's really important that we focus on to this day. It is precisely because of the fact that the freedom of the press, so it is important for the cartoonists, if we do our job, just don't do it. What is more, there argued about it, the better it is. But at some point in time it is difficult to have the creativity to draw on.
in my opinion we need today is not for a man to do. Use the day and the lack of freedom of the press in the world, and in the future. Look at how many of the journalists and cartoonists across the world there are fly away, beaten up, or threatened to be used."
Date Of Update: 07 January 2020, 13:01
