Old people can get really grumpy. I suppose it’s better to use the word ‘cantankerous’, but that doesn’t change the fact that sometimes you wish they would just take out their dentures and hou their bekke.

In what is an extraordinary attack on the slain editor of Charlie Hebdo, the 80-year-old former founding member Henri Roussel placed the blame for the attack on Stéphane Charbonnier (pen name Charb) for “dragging the team to their deaths”. Roussel claimed Charb and the magazine were pushing the boundaries with their increasingly controversial cartoons.

This from the Telegraph:

Calling Charb an “amazing lad”, he said he was also a stubborn “block head”.

“What made him feel the need to drag the team into overdoing it,” he said, referring to Charb’s decision to post a Mohammed character on the magazine’s front page in 2011. Soon afterwards, the magazine’s offices were burned down by unknown arsonists.