Here are my thoughts in response to the claim from Mr. Naji Ben Naji, who has accused me of stealing his ideas on the Donkishote website.

I think it is very important to say that his accusations are untrue. They are simply an attempt to make trouble for me with your website, which is one that I respect greatly. 

It is very clear to everyone now that we are living in a very small and interconnected world. Consequently, independent ideas will also sometimes be close and connected to one another. Every day, many similar paintings are made by international cartoonists, but this does not mean that the cartoonists are constantly stealing each other's ideas.   

As I see it, it is not problematic for cartoonists to use similar ideas:  these ideas are part of the public conversation and not restricted to one person.  Problems arise when an artist decides to abandon his ethics and appropriate something specific from another artist's work. I did nothing of this kind.

Frankly, I do not know anything about Naji Ben Naji's paintings, and I have never seen his archive. Clearly, I could not have done what he claims.

  Those who know me personally and those who follow my work regularly from afar know that I am very industrious and professional about my work, and I promise never to disappoint them.

The accusations of my fellow caricaturist Naji Ben Naji are entirely untrue, and I wish that he had not made them.