We will certainly be discussing what really happened in Paris, in the building of Charlie Hebdo, and how such a terrible attack could have been perpetrated in the middle of Paris. The outcry has incited more than forty heads of State or government to participate in the protests against the killing. The only common denominator of the countries participating in the march was the fact that these representatives rejected the "killing" as unjustifiable or even inexplicable, or that it could be a means for a political message.Did all the representatives at the protest march really share such an inviolable principle? Hard to say, when one sees Benyamin Netanyahu, whose conscience remains clear and calm after the heavy bombing of Gaza and its civilian population. Examples are multiple, but there is also another very important issue: that Turkey's alliances and main political guidelines remain strong and its support effective.Having said that, the problem of Charlie Hebdo is much more complicated than it appears. The magazine played a striking role in the aftermath of May '68, when all over the world, from France to Czechoslovakia, from Mexico to Turkey and from Japan to the USA, there was a strong wave of protest against an ossified societal value system. This has largely changed over decades, De Gaulle died in 1970, the war in Viet-Nam was over in 1975, the Left came to power in France in 1981 and everything that was taboo in the mass media has become a hot and debatable issues since.Charlie Hebdo was reminiscent, a relic of a bygone past, and read by only a small minority in France. By assassinating almost its entire staff of designers, the issue of freedom of speech has been brought to the agenda in the most repugnant way, and due to the sensitivity of the moment, it is very difficult to raise objections against what Charlie was doing.The problem lies beneath the surface, and is much more intricate and complex than it appears. As Zygmunt Bauman, a very old sociologist from Poland, who managed to survive the Holocaust, World War II and the Stalinist purges, has put very clearly: "Political assassination is as old as humanity and the chances that it will be dead before humanity dies are dim. Violence is an un-detachable companion of inter-human antagonisms and conflicts – and those in turn are part and parcel of the human condition. In various times, however, political murders tended to be aimed at different kinds of victims."This new kind of terrorism does not target eminent personalities or public figures. It attacks symbols. The 9/11 tragedy has created a sense of being assaulted among the U.S. public, which opened wide the perspective of implementing a savage and senseless strategy of the Neo-Con administration in place. This has resulted in the current situation of the Middle East: Iraq is divided into three, Syria does not exist anymore, nor really does Yemen, and Afghanistan is back to the starting point. Moreover, the "democratic" world has lost its credibility and its legitimacy internationally.By attacking the symbols, knowingly or viscerally, the Charlie Hebdo massacre-type terrorism divides and polarises populations who otherwise have established an acceptable modus vivendi. In this sense, it is likely to ignite further Islamophobic attacks, which are by the way, not directed against Islam itself, but against the Muslims peacefully living in democratic countries. This very pernicious form of terror requires a large-scale and deep cooperation between democratic states, also putting on its agenda "state terrorism" that should not ever anywhere be excused.