Charlie Hebdo founder blames provoking editor for team member’s death

January 17: Charlie Hebdo's slain editor Patrick Charbonnier, also known as Charb, is responsible for “dragging their team” to death, alleged Henri Roussel, one of the founding members of Charlie Hebdo. Henri Roussel, 80, called Charb to be a stubborn “block head” and accused him for their team death by releasing increasingly provocative cartoons without worrying about the unpleasant effect it has on his team members. Roussel contributed to the first issue of the satirical weekly magazine in 1970, when the magazine was known as Hara-Kiri Hebdo, wrote to murdered editor, saying: “I really hold it against you.” In this week’s Left-leaning magazine Nouvel Obs, Mr Roussel, who publishes under the pen name Delfeil de Ton as reported by Le Monde and The Telegraph, wrote referring to the editor’s decision: “I know it’s not done”, but proceeds to criticise the former “boss” of the magazine. “What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it,” he said, referring to Charb’s decision to post a Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) character on the magazine’s front page in 2011. Subsequently, the magazine’s offices were destroyed by fire by anonymous arsonists. “He shouldn’t have done it, but Charb did it again a year later, in September 2012?” This is not the first time Delfeil has opposed the modern Charlie, blaming Charb’s predecessor for turning it into a Zionist and Islamophobic organ.