There will “obviously” be Muhammad cartoons in the next edition of Charlie Hebdo, the magazine’s lawyer has announced.
“We will not give up, otherwise all of this will not have any sense,” Charlie Hebdo’s lawyer, Richard Malka, said in an interview to France Info radio.
“The spirit of Charlie is the right to blasphemy," he added.
One of Charlie Hebdo’s cartoonists, Luz, gave an assurance that those who survived the tragedy were busy working on a new edition.
"We are okay, we get by,” Luz told another radio channel, France Inter.
“Nightmares are fading away and we are preoccupied with making a magazine."
The new edition of Charlie Hebdo is due to be released on Wednesday and the print run will be a million, instead of the usual 60,000.
"The sign ‘Je suis Charlie’ means you have the right to criticize my religion, because it does not matter,” Malka said. “No one has the right to criticize a Jew because he is a Jew, a Muslim because he is a Muslim, a Christian because he is a Christian. But you can say anything you want, including the worst things, and we do say them about Christianity, Judaism and Islam, because beyond all of the beautiful slogans, that's the reality of Charlie Hebdo."
The magazine is appealing for donations to help it carry on. “Charlie Hebdo needs you to survive,” its website says.
And considerable resources have already been collected.
A million Euros has been donated by the French government to keep the magazine going, Le Figaro reported. 250,000 Euros has been provided by the French Fund for Digital Innovation and another 250,000 Euros are coming from French publishers. The Guardian Media Group has pledged £100,000 (128,000 Euros) in support.
Charlie Hebdo’s new edition to have Muhammad cartoons — RT News