Murdered Charlie Hebdo staff to be honoured at 42nd Angoulême comic book festival

The Festival de Bande Dessinée has opened and will award a Charlie Freedom of Speech prize among other honours

The celebrated Angoulême comic book festival opened on Thursday to laughter and tears three weeks after some of France’s best known cartoonists were gunned down in a terrorist attack.

Amid tight security, the 42nd Festival de Bande Dessinée opened to tributes to the Charlie Hebdo staff killed when Chérif and Saïd Kouachi stormed the satirical magazine’s Paris offices on 7 January.

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