Notes from Georges wolinski

March 6, 2015, Paris, France. A photo in the apartment of the couple in Paris showing the assassinated cartoonist Georges Wolinski (1934 –2015) and Maryse Wolinski (1943, Algiers). Georges Wolinski and Maryse Wolinski were married and had lived for 47 years together. Two month after the death of Georges Wolinski, the apartment is full of souvenirs and notes, attesting a half-century-long love affair. 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. Photo: Steven Wassenaar.

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March 6, 2015, Paris, France. A photo in the apartment of the couple in Paris showing the assassinated cartoonist Georges Wolinski (1934 –2015) and Maryse Wolinski (1943, Algiers). Georges Wolinski and Maryse Wolinski were married and had lived for 47 years together. Two month after the death of Georges Wolinski, the apartment is full of souvenirs and notes, attesting a half-century-long love affair. 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. Photo: Steven Wassenaar.