Corinne Rey (born 21 August 1982) is a French

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who publishes under the

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Coco.

Biography

Corinne Rey was born 21 August 1982 in Annemasse in eastern France. Under the pen name "Coco" she has published in periodicals such as ''

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...

'', '' Les Inrockuptibles'', and '' L'Écho des savanes''. Public figures such as politicians Dominique Strauss-Kahn and

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. He previously was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1997 to 2008, Mayor of Tulle from ...

are frequent targets of her political cartoons. She has won a number of awards for her cartooning. Rey has worked for ''Charlie Hebdo'' since 2009, where she did editing and contributed editorial cartoons. She was present at the 2015 massacre at the ''Charlie Hebdo'' offices in which twelve were killed. On 7 January 2015, two masked gunmen approached her at the building that houses the ''Charlie Hebdo'' offices. They threatened to kill her, and her young daughter, if she did not enter the passcode to enter the building. They took her to the ''Charlie Hebdo'' on the second floor, where she witnessed them kill cartoonists Georges Wolinski and

Cabu Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (; 13 January 19387 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the ''Charlie Hebdo'' newspaper offices. Cabu w ...

as she hid under a desk. The gunmen proceeded to another room and fired on the fifteen people in a meeting in progress.

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