Quake-hit Italian city sues Charlie Hebdo for ‘defamation’

Rome: The Italian city of Amatrice, strike by a lethal trembler final month, is posterior authorised movement opposite a French satirical repository Charlie Hebdo for insult over a array of cartoons about a tragedy.

The dual cartoons mocked a victims of a tragedy in Italy that claimed 292 lives
The dual cartoons mocked a victims of a tragedy in Italy that claimed 292 lives

An trembler final month killed during slightest 292 people in Amatrice, home to a famous tomato salsa “amatriciana”. The censure was formed on cartoons published by a repository after a quake.

One cartoon, patrician “Earthquake, Italian Style”, decorated upheaval victims as sauce-splattered survivors, and layers of Lasagna with blood and feet rising from it. (right top)

The animation immediately sparked cheer among Italians and stirred a French embassy in Rome to emanate a matter observant a sketch “in no approach represents France’s position”.

The announcement afterwards replied with a follow-up toon suggesting a mafia was to blame, saying, “it’s not Charlie Hebdo who built your homes, it’s a mafia!” (right bottom)

“It amounts to a macabre, inept and improbable insult to a victims of a healthy catastrophe,” a city council’s counsel Mario Cicchetti pronounced after a authorised pierce was announced.

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