From November 2nd to the 8 of July, a new exhibition opens its doors in Toulouse’s Museum of Resistance entitled “Forbidden Humor”. This exhibition created in the aftermath of January 2015, and named after a former exhibition in 1944 focuses on the use of drawings as protest, rebellion or misinformation and shows the historical similarities in the combat of artists.

This exhibit begins just as the the last drawings on the crash in the Sinai of Charlie Hebdo trigger an avalanche of outraged reactions from the Russian media.

Dmitry Peskov, spokesman of Kremlin, in a statement protested against these drawings ‘this has nothing to do with democracy, the expression of oneself or another. This is pure blasphemy.” What Gerard Biard, Chief Editor of the satirical weekly magazine replied: “We respect more values than Russian power, like democracy, secularism, freedom of speech”

As a reminder the vast majority of Russian journalists had reluctantly condemned the massacre of January but they especially felt that the drawing lacked respect to believers. Idea that is today dominant in Russia, is that this sort of situation come from country where there is too much freedom of the press and tolerance… Quality valued in some country are apparently not as much valued in others!