NARRATIVE – In ten years, the satirical newspaper and the leader of the Insoumis have engaged in a violent ideological war against the backdrop of secularism.
To think that they loved each other so much. « Between Charlie and Mélenchon, it’s a great love story that ended badly »summarizes Guillaume Lacroix, the president of the Radical Left Party. For years, L'Insoumis was a valiant traveling companion of the editorial staff, sharing its struggles such as, among others, the petition launched by the newspaper to ban the National Front in 1996. The team of Charlie recognized himself in this left-wing tenor, « more republican than me you die »as those who knew him well at the time recall.
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