French Authorities Distance Themselves From Charlie Hebdo A321 Cartoons

French authorities said they have no relationship to the cartoons published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a follow up of the Russian passenger crash in Egypt and stressed that they were among the first to offer their condolences over the Russian tragedy.

“The opinions expressed by the journalists in France are their free views and impose no obligations on the French authorities,” French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said in a statement on Friday.

He added that the French were among the first to offer their condolences over the tragedy in the skies above Egypt.

On Thursday, the magazine published two cartoons and a joke about the air crash over the Sinai Peninsula .... http://sputniknews.com