It depicted a balding man standing and covered in blood with the moniker “Penne in tomato sauce”, a badly scratched up woman next to him labelled “Penne au gratin”.
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The Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicting Italians as different kinds of pasta that has caused outrage among Italians.
Its latest edition features a cartoon entitled “Earthquake”. It showed a “Lasagne” building that had collapsed with feet sticking out from in between rubble.
The town where the tragedy occurred is known for its amatriciana pasta sauce, which is most likely where the magazine’s illustrators drew their inspiration from.
The mayor of Amatrice, the town with the highest death toll at 180 victims, bypassed diplomatic euphemism in a statement that expressed his distaste at the cartoon.
The quake in the central Apennines Mountain region claimed almost 300 lives, injured hundreds of people and left thousands of residents homeless when several towns and hamlets were devastated.
“These designs are disgusting”, said the Italian Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando, according to RT’s translation of French newspaper Le Figaro’s report.
Firefighters stand next to a collapsed house following an quake in Amatrice, central Italy.
A 6.2-magnitude quake hit Italy early August 24, followed by a number of aftershocks. “I’m sure this unpleasant and embarrassing satire does not reflect French sentiment”.
Sergio Pirozzi also stated, “Irony is always welcome, but you can’t satirize disasters and the dead”.
Following a similar reaction on social media, the French embassy in Rome said Friday that the Charlie Hebdo cartoon “does not absolutely represent the position of France”.
Charlie Hebdo, which made headlines in 2015 after a terrorist attack that followed the publication of a series of controversial Mohammad cartoons, has just released another controversial satire.
Twelve people were killed in the January 2015 attack on the magazine’s offices. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, said: “This isn’t satire; it’s garbage”.
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It’s not that Charlie Hebdo hasn’t been in hot water over irreverent portrayals.
