About Elsa Cayat
Elsa Jeanne Cayat (French: [ɛlza kaja]; 9 March 1960 – 7 January 2015) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a columnist for the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. She was one of 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and was killed along with the seven journalists, maintenance worker, one visitor and two police officers. She was the only woman working for Charlie Hebdo to die in the attack. She was one of two Jews killed in the attack, along with Georges Wolinski. Her first book was published in 1998, A Man + A Woman = What? We have avenged the Prophet Mohammed!" Charlie Hebdo is a satirical magazine, which was under threat because it had created a series of cartoons about Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo was trying to show that ISIS had not won and never would.
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