Russia hits out Charlie Hebdo for mocking plane crash with their cover page cartoon

Another cartoon shows a skull lying in the wreckage of air-plane

Moscow, November 7: The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo who is always in the news for wrong reasons has made yet another enemy. But this time their enemy is the powerful Russia on whom the magazine had mocked recent Egypt plane crash in which 224 Russian citizens were killed.

The Kremlin on Friday denounced the cartoon mocking last weeks plane crash in which 224 passengers most of them Russians died. The flight which was headed from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg were Russian. The cause of crash remains unclear but the investigating agencies had said that it was an ‘act of terror’.

The cartoon published in Charlie Hebdo, shows pieces of plane falling from sky on the Islamic State fighters and the caption below the cartoon reads, “ISIS: The Russian air force intensifies its bombardments.”

Another cartoon shows a skull lying in the wreckage of air-plane and the caption reads, “The risks of Russian low-cost flights”.

The cover page of the controversial magazine had created an outrage on social media with Kremlin criticised the publication, in a statement saying that, “In our country we can sum this up in a single word: sacrilege.”

Dmitry Peskoy, spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said, “This has nothing to do with democracy or self-expression”.

He said, “I am not commenting on moral standards of the French, this is a concern of theirs. But in this country it is clear blasphemy.”

“It’s not satire but filthy mockery,” said Ivan Melnikov, the deputy speaker of the lower house of the Russian Assembly.

Charlie Hebdo was the target of an attack on January 7, when terrorists entered their offices and killed 11 cartoonists and one police officer, after the magazine mocked Prophet Muhammad in their cover page. It triggered a massive, pan-European support movement under the name #JeSuisCharlie.