the author Nicolas Juncker announces “to donate” his reward “to the victims of the military violence of Sainte-Soline”

“There are prizes that are pleasing, others less so”, said Nicolas Juncker. The cartoonist is one of the winners of the “Galons de la BD” prize, awarded by the Ministry of the Armed Forces, with the cartoonist François Boucq for A general of generals, published by Le Lombard. But he announces in a Facebook post that he “East impossible to accept this price as it is” and souhait “reverse” her “share of 3,000 euros to a solidarity fund with the strikers against the pension reform” And “to a support fund for the victims of military violence in Sainte-Soline”.

“That, through my meager means, the Minister of the Armed Forces financially support these causes, wondering, perhaps, how to reestablish the ‘ties which unite a people to its army’ rather than seeking to destroy them, that could only comfort me“, explains Nicolas Juncker. “recalls that one of the demonstrators of Sainte-Soline is still between life and death”.

Nicolas Juncker recounts that two years ago he discovered that one of his works Alone in Berlinhad been selected for the same prize: “I had obtained (discreetly) that it be removed (and everyone was happy)”he points out.

“I admit that two years later, it seemed unlikely to me that the army would reward a book, ‘A general of generals’ telling “by the menu how the said army had recently tried to overthrow a republican government by a putsch “, he explains with satisfaction. It was, according to him, “underestimating the sense of humor of our soldiers and members of the jury (which I must admit, anyway)”. The comics A general, generals tells in a parodic style, the coup of May 13, 1958 carried in particular by generals opposed to the independence of Algeria.