The French satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated in an Islamist attack will come out as scheduled next week, one of its surviving staffers told AFP on Thursday. Charlie Hebdo will publish next Wednesday to defiantly show that “stupidity will not win,” said columnist Patrick Pelloux, adding that the remaining staff will soon meet. “It’s very hard. We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win,” he said. He added that the publication would have to be put together outside Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters which were not accessible following the massacre.
EU to submit new counter-terrorism proposals
Riga: The European Commission will submit new proposals to fight terrorism in the next few weeks following the deadly Islamist attack in France, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday.“I know from experience that one should not react on the moment to such events given the risk of doing either too much or too little,” Juncker told a press conference in the latvian capital Riga, which has assumed the rotating EU presidency.