Two Instagram accounts of journalists from Charlie hebdo, which had posted the weekly front page with the reproduction of the Muhammad cartoons, were temporarily deactivated on Sunday.
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“These accounts were deleted by mistake. We reinstated them as soon as we learned about them, and we apologized, ”Mélanie Agazzome, Instagram communications director for France and Southern Europe, told AFP. It only takes one report for an account to be deactivated, and those accounts have been reported.
Instagram account of Charlie hebdo “Was not closed, was not subject to any censorship, and some members shared the cartoons,” Ms. Agazzome added.
Cartoonist Coco and journalist Laure Dassy complained on Twitter that their Instagram accounts had been deactivated after they rebroadcast the cover of their newspaper, which on Wednesday reproduced the Muhammad cartoons published in 2006.
“Everything is restored. It is possible that massive coverage reports caused Instagram accounts to be suspended automatically, ”Coco tweeted in the middle of the day.
“The right to blasphemy cannot be diminished,” the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot recalled on Sunday.
“The right to blasphemy is a right in the secular French Republic: we must fight for it to be respected,” she insisted, as the trial of the January 2015 attacks opened on Wednesday, which especially hit the satirical newspaper.
Titled All that for this, Charlie’s Wednesday issue, in which the cartoons of Muhammad, who had made him a target of Islamist terrorism in 2015, sold 200,000 copies on day one and another 200,000 copies were published on Wednesday. on sale Saturday.