2023-11-23 21:25:56
Following a controversial sketch by comedian Guillaume Meurice about the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, which earned him accusations of anti-Semitism, the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) addressed a warning to Radio France, Thursday November 23.
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.
The authority also declared that it had opened the way to sanctions against CNews, for Islamophobic remarks made at different times by the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour, the lawyer Arno Klarsfeld and the journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, on the air of chain.
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These decisions come after the study of around ten sequences linked to the war between Israel and Hamas, Arcom having seized around twenty sequences since the outbreak of the conflict on October 7.
“Impairment of the proper exercise” of Radio France’s missions
The one addressed to Radio France closes the controversy that arose following a column by comedian Guillaume Meurice on France Inter on October 29, in which he described the 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 the 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.
Three CNews sequences transmitted to a reporter
As for CNews, three sequences broadcast, 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 (itself owned by the Vivendi group) .
In one of them, taken from the program “Le Grand Rendez-vous” on October 29, the polemicist and former presidential candidate Eric Zemmour (Reconquête!) declared that Islam is « incompatible » with France and the republic.
In another sequence, two days later, lawyer Arno Klarsfeld, for his part, 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”.
In the third, broadcast at the end of September, before the start of the war, the general director of the editorial staff of Sunday newspaperGeoffroy 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”.
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The other sequences analyzed did not result in intervention from Arcom, notably that for which journalist and essayist Caroline Fourest was accused of relativizing the deaths of Palestinian children on BFM-TV.
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