A German newspaper has apologised for mistakenly publishing a fake Charlie Hebdo cover that featured an anti-Semitic cartoon on its front page the day after the French publication was attacked last week.
The daily Berliner Zeitung featured four real Charlie Hebdo covers on its front page on Jan 8, along with a fake one depicting what appears to be an Orthodox Jew making a quip about the Holocaust. The cover carried the name “Charlo Hebdo” – a clue it was a fake.
The Berliner Zeitung said on Thursday it “failed to recognise that one of the cartoons was a fake” and offered its “profoundest personal apologies for this highly regrettable mistake”.
It said it had posted a correction in Friday’s paper acknowledging that it mistakenly printed an anti-Semitic cartoon.
