SURVEY - Five years later, do the French still support Charlie Hebdo?

"I am Charlie."

On January 10 and 11, 2015, some four million French people took to the streets in the wake of the attacks of January 7, 8 and 9 which claimed the lives of 17 people, including 12 in the editorial staff of the satirical newspaper

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In the crowd, the cries and the signs "Je suis Charlie" were numerous.

A feeling of belonging that seized a large part of the French, even crossing our borders.

Five years later, on the eve of the trial of these massacres which opens Wednesday in Paris, Ifop conducted the investigation in a poll * to find out whether the French were still "Charlie". 

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The publication of 12 cartoons of Muhammad in 2006 had, before this tragedy, already triggered strong reactions against the satirical newspaper.

Five years after the fact, 59% of French people still support their publication.

But 69% of Muslims surveyed ** think the journalists "were wrong because it was an unnecessary provocation".

As to why these cartoons sparked outrage, 29% of French people say they understand it, compared to 73% of French Muslims. 

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21% of young French people do not condemn jihadists

On the attack itself, the Ifop poll indicates that 88% of French people totally condemn the massacre.

French Muslims are also 72% to condemn the killings.

On the other hand, 8% of French people "do not express a condemnation towards the perpetrators of the attack", while they are 18% of French Muslims to have the same point of view.

This "non-conviction" is even gaining momentum among 15-24 year olds.

Thus, 21% of young French people and 26% of young French Muslims do not condemn jihadists. 

* Sample of 1,020 people representative of the entire population living in mainland France aged 15 and over, produced using the quota method. 

** Pointing to the low weight of Muslims in the French population residing in metropolitan France, Ifop considered that it was not possible to use the responses of Muslims questioned within a representative national sample.

The institute therefore established, using the same quota method, a sample of French Muslims of 515 people.

For the recruitment of this panel, Ifop has chosen an approach based on self-identification, i.e. to include in the sample only individuals who identify themselves. same as Muslims, whether they are "converts" or from Muslim families.

However, this study excludes people who say they have at least one of their Muslim parents, but who do not identify personally with this denomination.