Arkady Babchenko: “Yes, I’m still “Charlie”

“Firstly, to see laughter at the death of a child in these cartoons, you must either be zombied (since this category does not interest us, let’s leave it aside), or somehow be completely blinkered in your view of this issue.

Well, my friends. Well, here it is the bourgeois way of life with its “McDonald’s” and discounts that is facing the dirt, while very close by, not somewhere in Syria, but in prosperous Europe, children fleeing war are drowning. Here they drag their faces around the table with precisely these bourgeois who do not want to know anything in their little world and the church that preaches all goodness and love in words, but in reality does nothing for it.

To see in this laughter at the death of a child - well, you have to really try and look at this exactly opposite message with a magnifying glass.”