While everyone seems to release a book on 11 January 2015 to settle accounts, a recognized scientific bother to work before writing. As "After democracy," started from Sarkozy's election to go to the deeper logic of the evolution of French society, "Who is Charlie share of events of January 11 to go mostly to the classic themes of Todd, the explanation by the anthropology of development inequalities in France and its consequence: the construction of a scapegoat diversion: the Muslim Todd here is a man who constructed theories from his research. It is the own science. After, there is a risk of over interpretation of reality from the theory. That may be true of his desire to see everywhere, the brand of anthropology of the family. But if all the books that come out around Charlie were as intelligent and worked as one, the debate would not be there.