{"id":247655,"date":"2016-09-13T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=247655"},"modified":"2016-09-13T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:22:27","slug":"charlie-hebdo-sued-over-quake-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/charlie-hebdo-sued-over-quake-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Hebdo sued over quake cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Italian town heavily hit by last month’s earthquake is taking legal action against Charlie Hebdo, after it portrayed victims as pasta dishes.<\/p>\n
Amatrice, where most of the 295 victims lived, filed an aggravated defamation complaint against the satirical French weekly magazine.<\/p>\n
One of the images, labelled as lasagne, showed a stack of rubble with bloody feet emerging from it.<\/p>\n
Italian magistrates will decide whether the case can proceed.<\/p>\n
The town of Amatrice, which was one of the hardest hit by 24 August’s 6.2 magnitude earthquake, is famous as the home of the dish called spaghetti all’amatriciana.<\/p>\n
Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoon, titled “earthquake Italian style”, showed a bloody man described as penne tomato sauce, an injured woman as penne gratinee, and bodies stacked between layers of rubble as lasagne.<\/p>\n
The French publication’s office was the target of a terrorist attack in January 2015, in which 11 people were killed, prompting an international wave of solidarity with the magazine.<\/p>\n
‘Senseless and incomprehensible’<\/strong><\/p>\n However, the Amatrice cartoon prompted widespread outrage on social media and in the Italian press, with many decrying it as insensitive.<\/p>\n In response, Charlie Hebdo released a second cartoon, with the caption “Italians … it’s not Charlie Hebdo who built your homes, it’s the Mafia!”<\/p>\n