Notes from Georges wolinski

March 6, 2015, Paris, France. Widow Maryse Wolinski (1943, Algiers), in the livingroom of her Paris apartment, sitting beside the last completed drawing of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Georges Wolinski (1934-2015) that seems to announce his death. After the Islamist terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, and her Husband’s death, two month earlier, writer Maryse Wolinski deals with loss. The cartoonist Georges Wolinski was 80 years old when he was murdered by 2 French jihadists, he was one of the 12 victims of the massacre in the Charlie Hebdo offices on January 7, 2015 in Paris. Charlie Hebdo published caricatures of Mohammed, considered blasphemous by some Muslims. During his life, Georges Wolinski defended freedom, secularism and humour and was one of the major political cartoonists in France. The couple was married and had lived for 47 years together. Photo: Steven Wassenaar.

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March 6, 2015, Paris, France. Widow Maryse Wolinski (1943, Algiers), in the livingroom of her Paris apartment, sitting beside the last completed drawing of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Georges Wolinski (1934-2015) that seems to announce his death. After the Islamist terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, and her Husband’s death, two month earlier, writer Maryse Wolinski deals with loss. The cartoonist Georges Wolinski was 80 years old when he was murdered by 2 French jihadists, he was one of the 12 victims of the massacre in the Charlie Hebdo offices on January 7, 2015 in Paris. Charlie Hebdo published caricatures of Mohammed, considered blasphemous by some Muslims. During his life, Georges Wolinski defended freedom, secularism and humour and was one of the major political cartoonists in France. The couple was married and had lived for 47 years together. Photo: Steven Wassenaar.