Charlie Hebdo’s new front cover shows Mohammed with tear in eye

CHARLIE Hebdo has released the front cover of its upcoming “Survivors” issue, featuring the Prophet Mohammed with a tear in his eye.

CHARLIE Hebdo has released the front cover of its upcoming “Survivors” issue.

The artwork for the new edition features a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed holding up a “Je suis Charlie” sign.

Above his head are the words: “Tout est pardonne” or “All is forgiven”.

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— Libération (@libe) January 12, 2015

The prophet is shown with a tear in his eye, a reference to the sadness of the occasion.

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The satirical newspaper released the image ahead of the new issue’s publication tomorrow.

It will be the first edition of the paper since the attack on its Paris office last week, which left 12 people dead, including eight staff members.

The tragedy is likely to make this Charlie Hebdo’s most-read issue ever, reaching a global audience.

The newspaper has become an emblem for freedom of expression, with people across the world showing solidarity with the words “Je suis Charlie”.

Distributors said on Monday they were preparing to print as many as three million copies of Wednesday’s issue, 50 times the normal circulation of 60,000.

Its journalists have been working from the offices of left-wing daily Liberation.

The new artwork echoes one of the paper's most famous covers, from November 2011, when it was "guest-edited" by the Prophet Mohammed.

Depicting Mohammed is considered blasphemy and a serious insult by many Muslims.

The magazine's title was changed to "Charia Hebdo" (Charia is French for Sharia, as in Sharia law), and the cover showed the prophet saying, "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!"

After that issue was published, the magazine's office was firebombed and its website hacked.

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