France24:
Two organisations – the Algerian Democratic Union for Peace and Progress (RDAP) and the Organisation of Arab Union – are claiming a total of €780,000 in costs and damages, according to AFP.
The organisations say the court action is to “defend and support Islamic and/or Arabic people”.
According to the complainants’, the drawings were “damaging to the honour and reputation of the Prophet Mohammed and the Muslim community”.
“They stigmatised Muslims and provoked hatred,” their lawyer Anthony Bem told AFP, adding that “caricatures does not mean anything goes”.
Bem accused Charlie Hebdo of using the backdrop of Muslim protests against the West to boost its sales.