Hebdo victims buried today

CHARLIE HEBDO cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac are among five victims of last week’s terror attacks in Paris who were due to be buried today.

The bodies of the satirical magazine’s deputy editor Bernard Maris, contributor Elsa Cayat and police officer Franck Brinsolaro were also to be laid to rest today.

Mr Wolinski, known to fans of the weekly by his surname and who was awarded the Legion D’Honneur in 2005, was to be cremated at at the crematorium of Pere Lachaise this morning. The urn containing his ashes will be interred at Montparnasse, Le Monde has reported.

Mr Verlhac, also known as Tignous, was to be buried at Pere Lachaise, in the town of Montreuil, where he lived, this afternoon.

Meanwhile, according to a brief notice in La Dépêche du Midi, the Toulouse-born economist Bernard Maris - who wrote the magazine’s Uncle Bernard column and regularly commented on economic issues for France Inter radio and taught at a branch of the University of Paris - would be buried at a private family funeral today.

The funeral of Lt Brinsolaro, a protection officer assigned to the magazine’s editor Stephane Charbonnier, was due to take place, in privacy, at Sainte-Croix de Bernay, Eure, this morning. He, along with two colleagues who were also gunned down last week, was posthumously awarded the Legion D’Honneur at a ceremony in the Prefecture de Police in Paris earlier this week.

Psychoanalyst Elsa Cayat, who wrote the magazine’s ‘Charlie’s Divan’ column and was the only woman among the 12 victims in the gun attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday, would be buried at Montparnasse early in the afternoon, Liberation reports.

Yesterday, 700 people attended the funeral in Clermont-Ferrand of Michel Renaud, founder of Rendezvous Travel Book Festival, who was visiting the Charlie Hebdo offices when the attack took place.

Jean Cabut, aka Cabu, was also laid to rest yesterday in his hometown of Chalons-en-Champagne, AFP said. The funeral of one of France’s best-loved cartoonists, who published more than 35,000 cartoons in a 60-year career was attended by colleague Luz, who drew the controversial front page of the survivors’ edition of the magazine, former editor Philippe Val and former president of Radio France Jean-Luc Hees.

Ahmed Merabet, the police officer killed in the street as the gunmen made their escape from the scene was held on Tuesday - the same day as kosher store siege victims Yohan Cohen, Philip Braham, François-Michel Saada and Yoav Hattab were buried in Israel.

The magazine’s editor Stéphane Charbonnier is due to be buried in Bernay tomorrow.

The funeral of the third police officer Clarissa Jean-Philippe, who was shot in the back as she attended a traffic accident last Thursday in Montrouge, will be held on Monday in the town of Sainte-Marie, Martinique.

Caretaker and father-of-two Frédéric Boisseau, who was in reception when the killers stormed the Charlie Hebdo offices and became their first victim, will also be buried in a private ceremony on Tuesday in Seine-et-Marne.

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Photo Valentina Calà