2023-05-31 18:55:06
He summoned her to ” shut up “ et “chasing rats at night instead of talking bullshit” : Cyril Hanouna’s attacks on the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo have earned his C8 channel a new fine of €300,000, Arcom announced on Wednesday May 31.
This new sanction from the media regulator against C8 comes four months after a record fine of 3.5 million euros, again because of Cyril Hanouna’s show, ” Do not touch My TV ! » (“TPMP”). This record fine was imposed on the channel in early February after the insults hurled live by its star host at LFI deputy Louis Boyard in November.
Attack on the honor of the mayor
The new fine, which punishes “shortcomings” on the part of C8, moreover takes into account the “previous sanctions imposed for previous breaches of the same obligations”, said Arcom in a press release. The remarks in question were made in an issue of TPMP of October 5, 2022.
“The mayor of Paris, who did not participate in the program, was the subject of personal attacks from the presenter, who invited her to “shut up” and “hunt rats at night in the instead of talking bullshit”recalled the Arcom.
Cyril Hanouna also said that Anne Hidalgo was part of “of a ‘bunch of morons’, exclaiming ‘don’t piss us off’ and repeatedly repeating the expression ‘shut the fuck up'”continued the regulator.
L’Arcom “considered that these remarks were likely to infringe the rights of the mayor of Paris to respect for her honor and her reputation”. In addition, Arcom held that “this sequence reflected a lack of knowledge” by chain “of its obligation to control its antenna”.
Threat of frequency withdrawal
C8 (channel of the Canal+ group, controlled by the conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré) has been pinned on multiple occasions by Arcom in recent years because of Cyril Hanouna’s broadcasts.
In March, the instance was seized about a controversial sequence of “TPMP” where a guest put forward a conspiracy theory about an alleged drug taken from children. At the beginning of April, a preliminary investigation was opened in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) after a report from the Paris police headquarters on the presence of people wrongly presented as BRAV-M police officers in “TPMP”.
In recent months, the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, has repeatedly recalled that Arcom could withdraw its frequency from C8 in 2025 if it does not meet its obligations. These statements sparked protests from the Canal+ group. Lawyer and pamphleteer Juan Branco released a book against the host on Thursday, simply titled Chanuna.
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