A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is outraged at a cartoon in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo mocking the Russian plane crash in Egypt.
Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that Moscow views the cartoon as “blasphemy.”
It’s one of dozens of cartoons in this week’s edition of Charlie Hebdo, which has been beset by tensions this year over whether there should be limits, after 12 people were killed at the magazine’s offices by Islamic extremists over the paper’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
The small cartoon appears on the magazine’s back page and shows plane parts and a passenger falling from the sky onto a bearded, armed man in what appears to be an Islamic robe.
The commentary reads: Islamic State: Russian aviation intensifies its bombardments. Russians have been bombing
Lawmakers at the Russian State Duma voiced their outrage as well, calling on the government to blacklist the French publication as extremist literature and insisting that the French authorities react and apologize.
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