A Point of View - Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo

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Adam Gopnick reflects on the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

"The notion that what some have called France's 'stark secularism' - or its level of unemployment, or its history of exclusion, that imposed invisibility - is in any way to blame or even a root cause for this, depends on being ignorant of the actual history of France."

Producer: Sheila Cook
Editor: Richard Knight.

Published on Friday, 9th January 2015.

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