- Philippe Val
Philippe Val (born
September 14,1952 inParis ) is a French journalist who is the editor and director of "Charlie Hebdo ", a satirical political weekly newspaper. Every week Philippe Val writes the editorial for "Charlie Hebdo."Biography
Philippe Val first became known as a member of the comedy team of "Font et Val" with Patrick Font in the 70's and 80's. Val is also a musician (a
singer andpianist ). He performed in the years around 2000 together with Emmanuel Binet on bass. His last album was called simply "Philippe Val".In addition, Philippe Val has had an opinion slot first on environmentalism then on general politics in various programmes on
France Inter and is regularly a guest on the program "Le premier pouvoir" (The First Power), a critique of the media on the radio stationFrance Culture , as well as onI-Télé .He chose to publish the Danish caricatures of Mohamed. He denounced the danger of the islamist ideology, a "new totalitarism", and he won the lawsuit the French islamic organizations started against him. He supports Israel and asserts in his "Traité de savoir-survivre par temps obscurs" that the Jewish people has offered a lot to mankind and dedicated the victory of the trial to all moderate muslims.
ource
Based on the entry to Philippe Val in the French Wikipédia.
External links
* [http://lark.phoblacht.net/AM1804061g.html Profile: Philippe Val]
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