“Stupidity will not win,” says a surviving columnist for Charlie Hebdo, and the magazine will be published next week despite the devastating attack at its Paris office that left 12 dead.
The Paris-based AFP wire service reported that “the remaining staff held a meeting on Thursday to discuss its future.”
Columnist Patrick Pelloux told AFP: “We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win.”
The magazine is usually published on Wednesdays. A lawyer for the magazine said 1 million copies will come out next week, more than ten times its usual total.
The news reports about the publishing plans were not independently verifiable by CNNMoney on Thursday.
But in the wake of the attack, a number of French officials and editors at other news outlets said they would aid the continued publication of the magazine, potentially through financial and technological support.
Separately, in an interview on iTele TV, a French channel, Pelloux said “the paper will continue because they didn’t win.”
