Following the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 in October 2015 , which killed 224 civilians , mostly Russian women and children , and was seen as a probable terrorist attack , '' Charlie Hebdo '' published cartoons which were widely perceived as mocking the victims of the tragedy . One of the cartoons showed a victim 's blue-eyed skull and a burned-out plane on the ground , with the caption : " The dangers of Russian low cost " flights . The other showed pieces of the plane falling on an Islamic State ( ISIS ) fighter with the caption : " Russia 's air force intensifies its bombing . " A spokesman for Vladimir Putin called the artwork " sacrilege " , and members of the State Duma called for the magazine to be banned as extremist literature and demanded an apology from France
Metrojet Flight 9268
Metrojet Flight 9268
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