Daniel Anicet Noah predicts disappearance of "Charlie Hebdo"

Semiotician and crisis communication consultant Daniel Anicet Noah believes that this journal will not survive the massacre of a portion of its workforce during the January 7 attack.

Invited on the 1 pm newscast on the national station, Cameroon radio television (Crtv) Monday, January 12, Daniel Anicet expressed his thought about the fate of the French newspaper. Before addressing this issue, he highlighted the events of the French capital to denounce the attitude of local opinion in moments of tension: "When a State is attacked, sometimes we in Africa have the impression that we can leave it to others to solve it for us.


In the aftermath of Boko Haram attacks on Cameroon, we politicized it making the uninformed view it in a partisan way. Thus, inviting support of people for or against a party instead of stating the fact that we are not in agreement to the happenings of this Boko Haram incursions".

The question about if a million copies of "Charlie Hebdo" Wednesday would be enough to re-launch the machine, he replied: "it is a newspaper which has been hit in the heart. When we have a newsroom that is composed of 20 people, and 8 people have been killed, the journal can hardly continue in the same vein. Caricature is part of the arts, and I think that "Charlie Hebdo" will remain a kind of phantom as himself".


"This journal cannot continue with the same value. It does not impress me that they have run a million copies. The newspaper is something that takes the long short... " I believe that this will simply be a leaflet which will be distributed in a million copies", concluded the former Cameroonian national television Sportscaster.