The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, whose Paris offices were the target of a jihadist massacre in January 2015, will launch a German edition on 1 December in the wake of that country’s support for its work, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. A team of five translators is based in the western German town of Frankfurt. One year after Charlie Hebdo, my friend tells me: ‘This just isn’t the same Paris’ Read moreGermans bought 70,000 copies of Charlie Hebdo’s “survivors’ edition”, which appeared one week after the massacre, and sales of the French edition stand at about 1,000 a week in Germany today. The attack at the Paris offices of the decades-old magazine left 12 people dead including some of France’s best-known cartoonists. Charlie Hebdo, which provides part of its content in English on its website, sells 60,000 copies a week on the newsstand and has 50,000 subscribers.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2016 01:40 UTC