Paris: Two of Charlie Hebdo’s famous employees are leaving the satirical magazine amid claims of a “deep malaise” over the notoriety and unaccustomed wealth brought by the attack on the publication’s Paris office in January.
Patrick Pelloux, 52, a celebrity doctor and long-time Charlie Hebdo columnist, announced at the weekend that he would leave the magazine by the end of the year. “Something has come to an end. Something is finished,” he told a student radio station. “We are survivors, but we are not survivors. Part of us ended with the killings.”
Earlier, one of the magazine’s best-known surviving cartoonists, Luz, confirmed that he would be leaving Charlie Hebdo this week. Both men were leading figures in a “revolt” by Charlie Hebdo staff last spring against the allegedly authoritarian style of the post-massacre management and what they described as the “poison of the millions”.
After the jihadist assault on Charlie Hebdo, the stairical magazine’s future seemed secure despite the murder of some of its leading figures.
