They really were not in a hurry to go to heaven and that's who line ... Two other large feathers, or rather "pencils" of the band of Charlie Hebdo, Wolinski and Tignous, closely follow their Cabu buddy, buried yesterday in the privacy in Chalons-en-Champagne in the Marne. Georges Wolinski, who was aged 80, was cremated on Thursday at noon at Père-Lachaise in Paris. This is the same famous cemetery Bernard Verlhac who signed Tignous, died at age 57, was buried in the early afternoon; a ceremony in memory of the cartoonist is organized currently in the town of Montreuil. Inside the building is arranged his coffin, very simple, which cartoonists friends wrote a final message.
Wolinski, Tignous, Cabu, Charb and Honore were killed last Wednesday at a final editorial meeting together, in the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Wolinski as Cabu, was a legendary cartoonist in France since the 60s He has been a pillar of Hara-Kiri fierce newspaper, ancestor of Charlie Hebdo. Wolinski, creator of the famous "king of idiots", had somehow specialized in total irreverence and ribaldry, which did not prevent him from being a passionate lover of women. Every Wednesday in Charlie, he was to meet two characters, a big, domineering, and a skinny, shy, who multiplied the counter brief.
Tignous, of another generation, crunched society since 1980. Committed, sometimes desperate, he attacked in particular to capitalism, denounced social inequalities in the weekly Charlie but also in Marianne. The cartoonist also participated in television broadcasts on the debates in his way, to pencil strokes. Tignous was also the cartoonist He had, for example, traced in an album the trial of Yvan Colonna, a Corsican independence activist convicted for the murder of Prefect Claude Erignac.
Bernard Maris said "Uncle Bernard" in Charlie team, was killed, too, by the terrorists and Cherif Said Kouachi at the age of 68 years. The economist, who was not hiding from left to be actively defended the thesis of the decay, denouncing at the same time the consumer society. He is also buried on Thursday.
