Guest in Balance your post on Thursday 11 February 2021, Jean-Luc Mélenchon imposed a condition on Cyril Hanouna: that the editorialist Eric Naulleau is not present on the set. If the host accepted his request, he reconsidered the politician's wish with his columnists. In the aftermath of the debate with the leader of the Insubordinate France party, the journalist who was excluded from the program explained that he had been fair in going to greet him at the end of the program, despite his disappointment.
"Something quite strange happened, he began. I greeted Mr. Mélenchon, and as I was a bit teasing I added: 'Long live the democratic and contradictory debate', to which he replied: 'Long live insulting tweets!' " Before continuing: "And there, something happened that I cannot analyze: he approached me threatening enough, as if he wanted to attack me physically. He got closer to me there I took it as the beginning of aggression". Explaining having taken a step towards him in turn, he remembered that his interlocutor is "running away". "Either he said to himself, 'Courage, let's run away'. Or, he has come to his senses a little bit," he analyzed.
Raquel Garrido attacks Eric Naulleau to defend Jean-Luc Mélenchon
According to Eric Naulleau, "among the people who were present on the set" all would have "interpreted his attitude as a form of aggression that could go further. And Bernard Laporte, who was there, reacted a little nervous by saying to himself: 'What's going on ? He's gonna go after him ’"." I can tell you that Jean-Luc Mélenchon – and this is not the first time that we have seen him – is very aggressive physically and yesterday, we did not go far from an incident", said the columnist under the indignant gaze of Raquel Garrido, a former La France Insoumise activist who rushed to the aid of Jean-Luc Mélenchon … in his own way.
According to Alexis Corbière's companion, Eric Naulleau would have leaked Jean-Luc Mélenchon's request not to face him in the columns of the Parisian. Annoyed, the main party continued to refute his accusations. Despite Cyril Hanouna's support for the journalist assuring that the information revealed in the newspaper did not come from him, the former lawyer did not give way. "The fact that you get angry like that shows that yesterday's show was better off without you", she concluded.
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