A day after the hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Haji Yakoob Qureshi has reportedly threatened the same consequences to anyone who will show disrespect for Prophet Mohammed.
In 2006, BSP leader had raked up controversy by declaring Rs 51 crore prize for the anyone who will kill the Danish cartoonist, who had created a controversial cartoon of Prophet. Now, once again, Qureshi has declared reward to the Charlie Hebdo attackers.
The former Uttar Pradesh minister said that the magazine had been mocking the religion and the one who disrespects Prophet Mohammed deserves death.
A major operation has been launched to nab the gunmen, who killed eight journalists and two policemen. The police has released photographs of two suspects. A third suspect has handed himself in to police.
While security has been beefed up across France, with Paris being placed on the highest alert, police has issued arrest warrants for Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his brother, Said, 34.
Attacker Cherif Kouachi had previously been tried on terrorism charges and served 18 months in prison. He was charged with criminal association related to a terrorist enterprise in 2005. He had been part of an Islamist cell that enlisted French nationals from a mosque in eastern Paris to go to Iraq to fight Americans in Iraq. He was arrested before leaving for Iraq to join militants.
The satirical weekly has been mired in controversy in the past over its “irreverent take” on news and current affairs. It was fire bombed in November 2011 after it carried a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad.
Yesterday’s attack took place as the magazine was holding its weekly editorial meeting. Three cartoonists, Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski, and a French economist, Bernard Maris have been killed in the attack.
Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is well known for courting controversy with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders of all faiths and has published numerous cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad. Jihadists online repeatedly warned that the magazine would pay for its ridicule.
The last tweet on its account mocked Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamic State, which has taken control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria and called for "lone wolf" attacks on French soil.
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