Is it true that on the three covers of Charlie Hebdo the president of Ukraine is depicted in the form of a dog?

In social networks, the covers of a popular satirical publication, which feature a dog with the face of Vladimir Zelensky, has been spreading from the summer. We checked whether three magazine numbers with these caricatures really came out.

In July, August and September, Telegram channels and users of other social networks distributed, as they say, the cover of special numbers of Charlie Hebdo magazine, which in a very unsightly form depicted the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelevsky.

The cover that has become a viral this summer depicts a goblin with a head and a hat that form a map of Great Britain. This character regains Boris Johnson (on July 7 he is just declared About his resignation from the post of prime minister), in the lower right corner a dog with Zelensky’s face is depicted-in the mouth of the dog the human hand with a patch of Azov regiment (recognized by the Russian authorities with a terrorist organization) on the forearm. “A mixture of pigs and dogs is about Mr. Ze. Although the dogs in this case are a little sorry " - with such a comment, this cover Published On Twitter, the head of the Fair Russia faction - for the truth! " In the State Duma, ex-head of the Federation Council Sergey Mironov. Simple users shared it this social network, and also Facebook*, Livejournal And Pikabu. The cover also became popular in Telegram - it was published, including channels "Signal" (715,000 subscribers at the time of writing this analysis), "#Montyan!" (526 000), "Ostashko! Important" (338,000) and "Pool N3" (274,000).

At the turn of August and September on the Internet, a new cover, which allegedly decorated the special number of a satirical publication, has also become popular on the Internet. This time, the main character was French President Emmanuel Macron, who waters protesters from Brandspoy. In front of a police car, which depicts the French leader, is again the president of Ukraine in the form of a dog. This time he sniffs a certain brown substance from a bowl in the colors of the EU flag. The caricature was actively posted in Telegram, including large Russian -speaking channels: ""Legitimate"(824,000 subscribers),"Bullet"(792 000) and"Signal"(715 000). Cover mention can also be found in Twitter and other social networks.

Finally, in mid -September, a caricature dedicated to events in the UK reappeared. In the center of the image is the Queen of Elizabeth II who died on September 8, on the left is her son and the current monarch Charles III. At the same time, in the inscription on the pedestal in the word Queen (“queen”) the last letter was fixed - it happened Queer (either “representative of LGBT+”, or “strange, unusual”). A brush with paint used in the correction again holds Zelensky, dressed in a green T-shirt with a yellow-blue chevron on the paw. This caricature also dispersed through Telegram - it was shared, for example, a TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov (1.4 million subscribers), channels "Pool N3"(274 000) and"?? Open Ukraine 37# | Open Ukraine 37#"(199 000), users Facebook*, Twitter, Pikabu, "YaPlakal"And even Some media.

To begin with, on those two caricatures where there are inscriptions in French, mistakes are made. So, on the cover depicting the macron, the letter is missed - instead of HAUD, Chaud (“hot”, “warm”) should be written instead of HAUD. Moreover, the French who fell under the water from the Brandsit, say “Il Fait Plus [C] Haud Chez Nous” (“We have warmer at home”), then it would be more logical to formulate their replica as “Il Fait Plus Chaud Que Chez nous ”(“ It's warmer here than in our house ”). In the case of the cover dedicated to Johnson, the author forgot the letter E at the end of the phrase “La fête est finiE " (It is necessary according to the rule of coordinating the adjective with the feminine noun).

We were not able to find practically no references to these three covers outside the Russian -language segment of the Internet. The exception is Telegram channels in foreign languages, but they mainly reposted publications written earlier in Russian. Given the world -famous Charlie Hebdo and how actively every new release of this publication Discuss In social networks, such a very limited distribution of covers causes serious suspicions.

On the site Charlie Hebdo Inaccessible Rooms with three caricatures on Zelensky. So, the release with the cover about the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, it is alleged, was published on September 19 - the numbers of the magazine were published 14 And September 21 (On the cover of the first of them, King Charles III was depicted with the signature of “Lady Dee Killer on the throne”). On the release with the cover about Macron, the date on August 29 is indicated - the numbers of the magazine were released 24 And August 31 (The earlier number at the same time really decorates the caricature of the French president, but the other). Judging by the cover of release with Johnson, he appeared on sale on July 9 - in reality the magazine was released 6 And July 13, none of them was dedicated to the ex-prime minister in particular or the UK as a whole.

Moreover, on three covers depicting the president of Ukraine in the form of a dog, Numéro Spécial (“Special number”) is indicated at the top. These special publications Charlie Hebdo are presented in the same file cabinet on the magazine website. The last special number was released June 1, 2022.

September 23 Charlie Hebdo magazine Published On your website, a statement dedicated to the covers of special numbers of publication on the Internet. The text states that the editors learned about their existence from a freelancer from Russia named Misha, who sent them links to viral images in Telegram channels. These caricatures in the Charlie Hebdo statement are characterized as “painted poorly”. “The Telegram application with its 70 million users in Russia, originally created to escape from the Russian special services, becomes a caricature of itself,” the publication concludes, emphasizing that its authors will continue to expose Putin's madness.

The earliest publications about all three covers that we managed to find were indeed placed in Telegram. According to the TGSTAT service, they were the first to place them:

• The cover with the image of Boris Johnson is an anonymous channel "Heaven is"(480,000 subscribers) July 12 at noon Moscow time;
• The cover with the image of Emmanuel Macron is an anonymous channel "Pool N3"(274 000) September 1 at 15:16 Moscow time;
• The cover depicting the funeral of Elizabeth II - the channel of the media manager and the former commissar of the Russian pro -government youth movement "Our" Kristina Partic (169,000) September 20 at 11:02 Moscow time. Note that in early October, the dancer of the first Published The fake cover of the American edition of MAD, connecting the explosions on the Northern Stream with the White House.

Thus, the numbers of Charlie Hebdo with the covers on which the President of Ukraine is captured in the image of the PSA were not published. They are not mentioned either in a file cabinet on the publication’s website, or in its social networks. At the same time, the editors of the magazine published an appeal in which involvement in the emergence of such images is denied. As we could install, for the first time all three covers were placed in Russian-speaking Telegram channels that have nothing to do with Charlie Hebdo.

Correction of November 29, 2022: Initially, in this text it was mistakenly indicated that the latter at the time of writing the analysis of the special issue of Charlie Hebdo was released in September 2020. The text of the analysis before making corrections is available by link.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: Telegram

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