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France: Poll finds 40% find Muslims threat to 'identity'

A poll conducted by Ifop for the website Atlantico.fr found that 40% of French people think that "the presence of a muslim community in France is a threat to the identity of our country", after the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

Of those, 86% sympathise with the far-right National Front (FN), 18% for the Socialist Party Parti (PS), 49% for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and 32% for the Left Front (Front de Gauche).

25% thought that the Muslim community was a "factor of cultural enrichment."