Mustapha Ourrad (June 21, 1954 – January 7, 2015)[1] was a French Algerian copy editor, killed during the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting.
One of his favorite books was Albert Cossery's Mendiants et orgueilleux,[4] and his childhood friend Ousmer later said Ourrad also loved André Gide, André Malraux, and Charles Baudelaire,[3] which earned him the nickname "Mustapha Baudelaire.
[6] Ourrad joined the publisher Hachette, where he worked as a copy editor, notably on the Axis encyclopedia.
It was at the latter newspaper's headquarters that he was killed on January 7, 2015, one of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
[7] On January 13, 2016, the first day of the Amazigh year, members of the Kabyle diaspora paid homage to him in Paris.