French Satire Magazine Mocks Turkey's Earthquake Through Insensitive Cartoon

WORLD: On Feb 6, a French satirical magazine named Charlie Hebdo posted an insensitive animation on their Twitter.

Posted under the heading of ‘Cartoon of the Day,’ the caricature depicted disaster-stricken Turkey with the caption, ‘No need to send tanks now.’

✏️Le dessin du jour, par #Juin pic.twitter.com/kPcEqZDocO
— Charlie Hebdo (@Charlie_Hebdo_) February 6, 2023

The cartoon has been drawing flak globally as the Internet community calls out the publication for mocking earthquake victims.

"No need to send tanks" now, writes WS French outlet Charlie Hebdo, after thousands die from an earthquake.

I don't have the words for how vile this is. https://t.co/QvVURttWDS
— Richard Sudan (@richardsudan) February 8, 2023

My favourite times are when west exposes its own racism, bigotry and phobia. Charlie Hebdo, the cursed cartoonist who drew Prophet P.B.U.H’s sketches celebrates the death of 20,000 humans who died in Turkey & Syria’s earthquake here and says “we don’t need to send tanks in now”. https://t.co/RJQk2ySMY9
— Hamd Nawaz (@_myocardium_) February 8, 2023

This French newspaper is mocking the tragic earthquake in Turkey and Syria

The text says, “Tanks are no longer needed.”

They’re basically calling for a Western invasion of Turkey. And they’re rejoicing at the destruction of Turkey

May Allah give the French what they deserve https://t.co/JbEZ7gPXtw
— OJ Smoke (@OJ_Smoke_) February 8, 2023

Few others are reporting the account as they think it’s a vile practice of ‘freedom of speech.’

If a muslim would happily tweet about thousands of death's he would be called a "terrorist" and know it's coming from the west in the form of "freedom of speech" https://t.co/ShEfZbAsTn
— Peaceofmind (@SigmaWolfx) February 8, 2023

Hey @elonmusk @TwitterSupport we reported this so called caricature 2 days ago. Is this free speech? Why is this tweet vomited by the excrement called #Juin still available? https://t.co/7XV0ddHoyn
— Kerem Erkan (@Kerem_Erkan) February 9, 2023

Charlie Hebdo shooting 2015:

Saad and Chérif Kouachi, two French Muslim terrorists and brothers, broke into the Paris headquarters of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015, at around 11:30 a.m. They killed 12 individuals and injured 11 others while using rifles and other weapons. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an Islamic terrorist organisation, claimed responsibility for the incident after the shooters identified themselves as members of their organisation.

Looking back at the attack, Twitterati stated they won’t feel bad if their office is targeted again.

‘Don’t even need to send in tanks’

Nothing perfectly encapsulates the embrace & celebration of violent racism quite like when Charlie Hebdo was Je Suis’d into the defining characteristic of Euro-American values & civilization in 2015. https://t.co/cJxWKhGRpf
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) February 8, 2023

and see this is why ill never feel bad the next time extremists march into your offices, the French once again being the absolute most vile people on earth https://t.co/ys6M5r9DSi
— hayat • حياة (@hayxtt) February 7, 2023

Now if we say that Charlie Hebdo should be shelled to the ground we'd be labeled as terrorists and get our accounts suspended for inciting violence. But they can proudly post crap like this and no one will bat an eyelid. Worse, they'll label this mockery as freedom of speech. https://t.co/rDuMZcQ6lh
— aya (@political_aya_) February 8, 2023