Julien Pichené, with Solène Delinger
Nothing is going well for Guillaume Meurice. A week after making comments deemed anti-Semitic on France Inter, the comedian received a warning from his employer. He has already made it known that he will contest it.
Guillaume Meurice has been in turmoil for a week and his famous column on France Inter, in which he compares Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a “Nazi without a foreskin”.
The boss of Radio France steps up to the plate
The comedian received a warning issued by the management of France Inter. And, he has already made it known that he was going to challenge it: “I am going to challenge this warning in court. I was only doing my job,” he defended himself while the CEO of Radio France Sibyle Veil spoke yesterday to the group’s 4,500 employees to remind them what working for the public service means. “Public service is not at the disposal of individual commitments and personal careers. Of course we can laugh at everything, but there is a way of doing it… This requirement of responsibility and moderation is imposed on every employee of Radio France, including comedians,” she declared.
“Humor is not intended to add division to division”
Sibyle Veil also felt that “humor was not intended to add division to division” and that freedom of expression must be accompanied by the ability to recognize an error of judgment in all humility. “Everyone must be in solidarity with the general interest, must exercise their profession while respecting our values, without harming public service and its universal vocation. When this is not the case, sanctions are legitimate and are taken “, explained Sibyle Veil, without specifying what these sanctions are.