Overview
- Ifop filed a complaint on November 24 against LFI deputies Paul Vannier and Bastien Lachaud after they alleged the institute rigged its figures and acted under foreign influence.
- Écran de veille and two of its journalists said they lodged complaints targeting Vannier for defamation and for incitement and endangering staff after he shared a screenshot exposing their office address.
- Four departmental Muslim councils (Aube, Bouches-du-Rhône, Loiret, Seine-et-Marne) filed a complaint challenging the survey’s wording as biased and invoking France’s 1977 law on opinion polls.
- Twenty‑nine Les Républicains senators released a 107‑page report with 17 recommendations, including banning the veil and fasting for under‑16s, restricting veils for school chaperones, tightening oversight of foreign funding, and limiting religious signs for elected officials.
- The Ifop study, conducted by phone from August 8 to September 2 with 1,005 Muslim respondents, reported 59% of 15–24 year‑olds favoring sharia’s application and 38% approving some Islamist positions, figures that critics and experts dispute over definitions and methodology.