Funerals for four of the victims of the
Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris last week have been held in France yesterday. Hundreds gathered outside the town hall of Montreuil, near Paris, for the service celebrating the life of cartoonist
Bernard 'Tignous' Verlhac. Guests during wrote humorous messages and drew cartoons on the coffin during the family ceremony, which included caricatures of Tignous himself.
Tignous, 57, had been working as a cartoonist since the 1980s and was a member of a group of artists called Cartoonists for Peace. He also belonged to the Association de la Presse Judiciaire, an association of French journalists covering the courts, and sent his last drawing - a self-portrait wishing Happy New Year to the association the night before his death.
A private family funeral was also held for
Georges Wolinski, 80, another of Charlie Hebdo's veteran cartoonists. His works had appeared in weekly magazine Paris Match, satirical magazine Hara-Kiri - considered a forerunner of Charlie Hebdo and numerous other publications.
A large crowd had also gathered for the funeral of
Franck Brinsolaro, the police officer who served on the bodyguard detail for the murdered editor of Charlie Hebdo,
Stephane 'Charb' Charbonnier. The funeral of psychoanalyst and Charlie Hebdo columnist
Elsa Cayat is also set to be held today
The ceremonies follow reports that the three terrorists responsible for last week's attacks could be laid to rest near where they carried out their atrocities, as their home-towns are unwilling to bury them.
Mayors are afraid the graves of Said and
Cherif Kouachi, behind the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, and
Amedy Coulibaly, shot dead after a siege at a Jewish deli in Paris, could become shrines for Islamic extremists.
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