Overview
- Charlie Hebdo’s latest cover criticizes U.S. immigration enforcement, depicting an ICE agent dragging a bullet-riddled body identified as Alex Pretti after his killing in Minneapolis on January 24.
- Elon Musk replied on X on Thursday by calling the cartoon “attardés” and linking to a Grokipedia page about the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks.
- The weekly answered on Friday with a photomontage showing the Kouachi brothers emerging from a Tesla-style vehicle with a speech bubble reading “Merci Elon!”.
- Director Riss told AFP the reply aimed to place Musk and the Kouachis “back to back” as different enemies of the paper and rejected what he described as a far-right narrative that conflates migration with terrorism.
- The posts drew wide attention, with the initial Charlie Hebdo tweet reported at over six million views, and no legal actions or official sanctions have been reported.