“It’s what we’re fighting for,” the journalist said, acknowledging that the magazine’s drawings will “always” make a target. He said that “the insults and threats” against the magazine have not disappeared, and that “a climate of unbridled hostility” continues.
On January 7, 2015, it was about 11:35 a.m. when the brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi came out of the building where they had decimated the editorial office, yelling, “We avenged the prophet Mohammed! We killed Charlie Hebdo!” Riss, whose real name is Laurent Sourisseau, is one of the rare survivors of the massacre.