Why people are buying the magazine. The word on the street...

[Surya Gayatri]

Last edited Wed Jan 14, 2015, 08:37 AM - Edit history (1)

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30811692

Across France, people have been trying to get their hands on the latest edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Its initial print run has been selling fast - while some have been lucky, many others have missed out.


Jean
"I have already been round five other places and it's not even 07:00 yet and I couldn't find one, they had all been sold.

"I think that newspaper kiosks would have liked to have many more because they would have sold them straight away. So I'm queuing in the last one to open so as to try to get one. It is a souvenir for the march last Sunday."


Jamel, a newsstand owner
"I was scared this morning when I found a huge queue outside the newsstand. There was such a crowd. People had reserved their issue a week ago. Some reserved theirs even before they [the magazine] decided to launch this issue."


Claude Durand
"It's important for me to buy it, firstly because I will learn more about the magazine and maybe this will inspire me to buy it in the future. But also given the situation at the moment, I think that all of France will be buying Charlie Hebdo."


Angelique Himuer
"I know there will be more copies tomorrow and the day after, so we all hope to get one. Some people outside France, from China and the US, have asked me to book one for them so we'll all try to get it."

Catherine Boniface
"This issue is symbolic, it represents their persistence, they didn't yield in the face of terror."

Jean-Baptiste, a delivery driver
"Distributing Charlie Hebdo, it warms my heart because we say to ourselves that he is still here, he's never left."

[grossproffit]

1. I'm hoping to be able to purchase a copy as well. eom

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Good luck! It's being published in 25 languages and now

they say there'll be a print run of 5,000,000 rather than their habitual 60,000.