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In the week following the atrocities, a wave of
moral hysteria swept France. ‘Je suis Charlie’ became almost obligatory. The
Hollande/Valls message was simple: either you were for the magazine or for the
terrorists. Quite a few, now as in 2001, were for neither. These included Henri
Roussel, the 80-year-old founder of Hara-Kiri, the title under which Charlie Hebdo was
published before it was forced into a name change – it was banned by the French
government for insulting the corpse of Charles de Gaulle. 
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