A signed Foolz, the number 1.276 of “Charlie Hebdo” released January 4, 2017. – Screen Capture / Foolz

This Thursday, sober tributes have been rendered to the victims of the attacks of January 2015, which had left 17 people dead, including twelve during the attack on Charlie Hebdo. While the satirical weekly has just published a special edition of two days of the commemorative date of the tragedy – on Saturday, it will be two years since the attack occurred – it is a key moment in its existence. Whether on the economic or on its editorial line.

stable sales and the desire to be somewhere else. ” 2015 was the year of survival, 2016 the stabilisation, ” says Riss, the editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo. After the attacks, 260.000 subscriptions, had been subscribed, under the blow of the emotion, but the majority of them have not been renewed. However, since the terrorist attack, each number is the average length of time in 50.000 copies in kiosks and more than 50,000 by subscription, compared to the 30,000 previously, ahead of his direction.

in addition, the weekly has a war chest of ten million euros. Manna used to launch projects, including the translation of articles in English on its website and the launch of a German edition. The first issue of the grind teutonne was published on the 1st of December. “It was found that there was a real curiosity in Germany for Charlie Hebdo, explained Riss at the time. Conversely, it has rarely been solicited by Great Britain, Spain or Portugal ” for exhibitions or conferences. For the time being, if you have no goal in terms of sales has not been set twelve people are working on this edition of beyond the Rhine.

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