Sanctioned after some questionable comments about the Israeli Prime Minister, comedian Guillaume Meurice returned to France Inter early Sunday morning in the show “Le Grand Dimanche Soir”. This was exceptionally held without an audience, for security reasons due to the death threats against him. After proposing for Halloween a “costume” of Benyamin Netanyahu, “a kind of Nazi but without a foreskin,” in a comic book on France Inter at the end of October, Guillaume Meurice, who refused to apologize, received a “warning. “» of the radio that uses it.
“Is it there?” asked the show’s host, Charline Vanhoenacker. I don’t know for how long yet. But my board is still activated, so here I am,” he joked. Charline Vanhoenacker defended her columnist, who has received death threats. “This silence is what settles after the threats and intimidation against the actors,” he said, commenting on the absence of the audience that regularly provides the recording.
“On the Oct. 29 show, there was a joke that caused controversy. If this joke surprised you or hurt you or both, if this joke made you laugh, or if you regretted laughing, if it embarrassed you, divided you, made you think, or if you’ve been through multiple states at once, know that the same thing happens within our team,” he continued. “If we’re here tonight, it’s because we’ve triumphed over our differences and we have confidence in Guillaume.
“To reduce a joke to what the right reads is an attempt at harmful malice. Dangerous because some (. . . ) draw a target on the foreheads of clowns,” the presenter explained.
In an interview with La Tribune Dimanche, the director general of Radio France, Sithroughle Veil, had in the past justified her choice to put the comic in order, a dismissal. I didn’t need to send a signal that other people would have been easy to exploit,” said the director of the public radio group. The price of freedom of speech, to which we are very attached, is much more important than a problematic phrase through a comic book, which fortunately is an exception. “
According to Le Figaro data, not broadcast by Radio France, Guillaume Meurice benefits from the prestige of a worker after standing on the LDS list in the last elections for staff delegates.
Veil also downplayed internal tensions. It doesn’t make as much noise as you say. . . This week has been relatively quiet,” he said. He also deplored “a spiral of controversies that crushes everything. For more than ten days we have only talked about this, to the detriment of 99. 99% of the rest of the things we do on our airwaves, adding the in-depth politics of the confrontation in the Middle East.
Against a backdrop of heightened tensions surrounding the war between Israel and Hamas, Guillaume Meurice’s joke has earned him numerous harsh criticisms, as well as death threats. On Monday, the presenter claimed to be “not at fault. ” I practice humour, caricature, political satire and excess is one of them,” he told Le Monde, who intends to “challenge in court” the reprimand received.