“Charlie Hebdo” editor Laurent Sourisseau told German magazine “Stern” that his publication will no longer publish cartoons of Mohammad. Six months after the cowardly terrorist attack against the French satirical magazine’s offices on January 7 in Paris, which led to the massacre of 12 people Sourisseau says the magazine drew cartoons of Mohammad to defend the principle that everyone has the right to draw whatever they want. “Well we did that”, he says.

Laurent Sourisseau

He notes that the mistakes someone could blame Islam for can be found in other religions too. Sourisseau, who holds 40 per cent of the company’s shares only survived the attack by playing dead. He recounted the tragic events to the German publication remembering the silence after the massacre. “No complaints. No whining. That is when I understood that most were dead”, he said.