The only surviving cartoonist of the terror attacks at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris has said that he is leaving the magazine.
Renald “Luz” Luzier, who is the only cartoonist to survive the attacks and who designed the Muhammad cover, told the French publication Liberation that he is leaving.
Luzier said in the interview that his job had just become "too much to bear" since his coworkers were killed in the massacre earlier this year.
As previously reported, two gunman stormed the offices of the satirical magazine on Jan. 7 and murdered 12 people, including five cartoonists. Those gunman were later shot and killed. Authorities believe that they were motivated by the magazine’s depiction through images of the Prophet Muhammad.
Luzier was running late the morning of the attacks and drew the cartoon prophet after the murders for the “survivors” edition.
The 43-year-old cartoonist joined the magazine in 1992 and will be leaving in September. He stated that he would like to “rebuild” and “regain control” of his life.
"Finishing each edition is torture because the others are gone. Spending sleepless nights summoning the dead, wondering what Charb, Cabu, Honore, [and] Tignous would have done is exhausting," he said, referring to some of his murdered colleagues.
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