The silent government in the face-to-face between Pap Ndiaye and Vincent Bolloré’s media

2023-07-12 05:02:08
Pap Ndiaye during questions to the government, at the National Assembly, July 11, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP

This Monday, July 10, Pap Ndiaye hears, overwhelmed, the words that the presenter of the program “Punchline”, Laurence Ferrari, had against him: the indictment broadcast simultaneously on CNews and Europe 1 sounds, in the eyes of the Minister of l national education, as “a call to murder”. Is there no one in the government, within the majority, at Matignon or at the Elysée to defend it publicly? “Who among them has the slightest idea of ​​what racism is? » is moved the historian of minorities, perpetual target of the right and the extreme right.

The former presenter of the “20 hours” of TF1 attacks the one who, she says, “allows itself to anathematize two independent editorial staff, CNews and Europe 1”two media outlets controlled by Breton billionaire Vincent Bolloré, giving “lessons of democracy from his opulent living room in the chic districts of Paris”. She mentions the schooling of the Minister’s children in a private establishment, criticizes his management of national education and concludes, quoting Michel Audiard, that “Bullshit is like taxes, we always end up paying them”.

The day before, Pap Ndiaye had expressed on Radio J his support for the Sunday newspaperon strike to protest against the appointment as its head of Geoffroy Lejeune, the former editor of the far-right magazine Current values. “I understand that they don’t want to enter the galaxy of publications or media controlled by a figure obviously very close to the most radical far right”he replied with reference to Vincent Bolloré, who built a powerful reactionary pole from audiovisual to publishing. “When you look at CNews, when you look at what has become of Europe 1, the conclusion is obvious. CNews is very clearly the far right”continued the former director of the Palace of the Golden Gate about the opinion channel built on the model of Fox News.

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Immediate reactions from the figures of the identity right. The friend and support of the ex-candidate of the extreme right Eric Zemmour, Philippe de Villiers, who calls for “refrancize France” and to “flush out the fifth column”currycomb on Twitter one “Minister of National Re-education” of which the “secret project is to bring Islamism and wokism back to school”. “Support for Vincent Bolloré, a great French entrepreneur. (…) What did Pap Ndiaye do in his life and for our country, apart from trying to deconstruct our nation? »engages the boss of the right Les Républicains (LR), Eric Ciotti, using the formulas of an April issue of Current valuesthen led by Geoffroy Lejeune, targeting the “Minister of National Deconstruction”.

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