2023-11-17 20:44:42
After two weeks of intense controversy following the criticized column by comedian Guillaume Meurice on Benyamin Netanyahu (he described the Israeli Prime Minister as a “Nazi without a foreskin”), his accomplice Charline Vanhoenacker is absent from the airwaves this weekend in a completely unexpected way.
“I was put to rest by the doctor,” the host confirmed to Le Parisien, without further comment. But it is the scale of the controversy which is at the origin of this sudden bout of fatigue. “Since the controversy emerged 18 days ago, Charline has been at the heart of multiple pressures,” says one of those close to her. His doctor therefore told him to rest for a few days. She has received support from management and will be back as soon as possible.”
Death threats received after the outcry
This absence comes as Charline and her team have just taken a week’s break during the All Saints’ Day holidays. Hectic holidays since Guillaume Meurice’s chronic derriere before leaving caused a national outcry, which even caused the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, to react.
Guillaume Meurice and Charline Vanhoenacker received death threats, which pushed Inter to organize the program traditionally offered in public behind closed doors. Security measures which had just been renewed for an additional week.
Alerted in the middle of the week of the probable absence of its presenter, the station management considered maintaining the show without her but, given the context, it decided against it, ordering an emergency best of. Saturday, at 7 p.m., his number of “Bistroscopie” with Jacques Attali, dating from September, will be rebroadcast. The next day, from 6 p.m., public radio listeners will hear a compilation of the first two months of “Big Sunday Evening”, instead of the broadcast traditionally offered live.
The week had started well
After explanations and declarations of appeasement on the airwaves last Sunday, the week had started well for Charline and her gang. The audiences published this Thursday by Médiamétrie confirmed a rapid installation of the show which has already gained 120,000 followers (for a total of 675,000) compared to the show which occupied the slot last year.
The same evening, Adèle Van Reeth, the station director, supported her columnist who had received death threats. “You don’t fire a comedian for a bad joke made at a bad time. It would be harmful. What does it mean to defend freedom of expression if, the very minute something shocks us, we choose to get rid of the person who said it? Freedom of expression is not an empty word! It is in these moments that she is put to the test. “, she declared in an interview with Le Parisien.
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