2023-11-23 20:21:41
Arcom sent a warning to Radio France for a controversial sketch by Guillaume Meurice on Benyamin Netanyahu and opened the way to sanctions against CNews for anti-Muslim remarks by Éric Zemmour and Arno Klarsfeld, the regulator indicated Thursday, November 23 .
These decisions come after the study of around ten sequences linked to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Arcom having seized around twenty in total.
In the disciplinary scale of the instance, the warning occupies the second level, after the letter reminding the regulations and before the formal notice and the sanctions.
A controversy born at the end of October
The one addressed to Radio France closes the controversy that arose at the end of October from a column by comedian Guillaume Meurice, who on France Inter described Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu as a “kind of a Nazi, but without a foreskin”.
In a rare decision for a humorous sequence, Arcom considered that this sketch had “undermined the proper exercise by Radio France of its missions and the relationship of trust that it must maintain with all of its listeners”according to the letter sent to the president of Radio France, Sibyle Veil.
“The risks of repercussions on the cohesion of our society could not be ignored, particularly in a context marked by the resurgence of anti-Semitic acts”justified the authority, “by reaffirming the importance of protecting the freedom of expression of comedians”.
Arcom also specifies that it has “taken note of the warning” addressed by Sibyle Veil to Guillaume Meurice.
Return of the show in public on Sunday
The show where he appears, “The great Sunday evening”, will be back live and in public on Sunday, France Inter announced Thursday. The final episode was not recorded in public as usual, due to death threats received by the team. And on Sunday, the show was not broadcast due to health problems of its host Charline Vanhoenacker.
Furthermore, three sequences broadcast on CNews, including two after October 7, were transmitted to an independent rapporteur, a preliminary step to possible sanctions for the news channel of the Canal+ group (Vivendi).
In one of them, taken from the program Le Grand Rendez-vous on October 29, the polemicist Éric Zemmour (Reconquête!) estimates Islam « incompatible » with France and the Republic. In another, two days later, lawyer Arno Klarsfeld aims for a “Muslim minority which is active” in matters of anti-Semitism and mentions the many Muslims working ” on construction sites “ and having “access to explosives”.
No intervention for the comments of Caroline Fourest
In the third, broadcast at the end of September, before the start of the war, the journalist Geoffroy Lejeune believes that anti-Semitism is one of the ” consequences “ of “Arab-Muslim immigration, like part of drug trafficking, like prison overcrowding, like the abaya, like all that”.
The other sequences analyzed did not lead to intervention by Arcom, in particular that for which Caroline Fourest was accused of relativizing the deaths of Palestinian children on BFMTV
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