Charlie Hebdo responds to Paris terror attacks

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The cartoon is of a man riddled with bullet-holes – each of which spurts out the champagne he carries on drinking, regardless of his wounds.

‘They have weapons,’ says the caption. ‘F*** them. We have champagne.’

This is the arguably tasteless front cover of France’s satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine, due to be published on Wednesday in direct and self-consciously defiant response to Friday’s ISIS massacres in Paris.

Yet while the relatives of those slaughtered in the carnage may find it hard to raise a smile, there is no disputing that the cartoonist who created the image knows what it is like to stare terror in the face.

For she is Charlie Hebdo regular Corinne Rey, who works under the pen name Coco.

In January she was forced at gunpoint to let terrorists into the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo – and then witnessed her colleagues being slaughtered.