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Charlie Hebdo Founder Says Slain Editor 'Dragged' Staff To Their Deaths

Charlie Hebdo Founder Says Slain Editor 'Dragged' Staff To Their Deaths
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Deputy Media Editor, The Huffington Post

A man puts flowers on the tomb of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, who was buried earlier Wednesday, in the Chalons-en-Champagne cemetery, eastern France, Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015. The core of the irreverent newspaper's staff perished a week ago when gunmen stormed its offices, killing 12 people and igniting three days of bloodshed around Paris. Charlie Hebdo employees who survived the massacre published a new issue of the magazine becoming known as the survivor's issue that appeared on the streets Wednesday with a print run of 3 million, more than 50 times the paper's usual circulation. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)
A man puts flowers on the tomb of Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Jean Cabut, known as Cabu, who was buried earlier Wednesday, in the Chalons-en-Champagne cemetery, eastern France, Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015. The core of the irreverent newspaper's staff perished a week ago when gunmen stormed its offices, killing 12 people and igniting three days of bloodshed around Paris. Charlie Hebdo employees who survived the massacre published a new issue of the magazine becoming known as the survivor's issue that appeared on the streets Wednesday with a print run of 3 million, more than 50 times the paper's usual circulation. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

A founding editor of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo has written an emotional and critical letter to the paper's late editor in the aftermath of a terrorist attack at the paper's Paris office that killed 12 people.

Henri Roussel, who helped to conceive the inaugural issue of Charlie Hebdo in 1970, penned an editorial for the French magazine L'Obs about slain editor Stephane Charbonnier and his "stubborn" management style. Roussel wonders why Charbonnier, also known as Charb, continued to push his staff despite multiple threats and attacks, suggesting that his "block head" behavior led the rest of the team to their deaths.

“I really hold it against you," he wrote to Charbonnier, under the pen name Delfeil de Ton, the Telegraph reported Wednesday.

“What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it," he added, referencing a 2011 depiction of Muhammad. (The paper was subsequently firebombed.)

Roussel referred to the editor as a "splendid" and "amazing lad," but concluded with a heart-wrenching farewell.

"I'm upset at you, Charb," Roussel wrote, according to NBC News. "May your soul rest in peace."

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