“Freedom is not without its counterparts: it is necessarily accompanied by responsibility, the choice of limits and the ability to recognize in all humility an error of assessment. » Should Guillaume Meurice have made amends after his sketch mentioning the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday October 29, during the program “Le Grand Dimanche soir”, sparked a lively controversy?
For Sibyle Veil, the answer is without doubt. The president of Radio France received Guillaume Meurice, Monday November 6 at 2 p.m., to inform him of her decision to send him a “warning”. The comedian was assisted by a union representative, and the manager was assisted by the human resources manager of the round house. “I contest this sanction, because I did not make a mistake and I was only doing my jobdeclares to World Guillaume Meurice Monday evening. I consider this to be an injustice, so I appeal to justice”.
The president of the public broadcasting company sent a message to Radio France employees in the afternoon, in which she considers that the“requirement of responsibility, rigor and moderation” which applies to the media and “singularly” at Radio France “cannot stop at the gates of [nos] editorial staff, at the risk of undermining all the work that is done”. “Humor is as perilous as necessary in difficult times (…) but it is not intended to add division to division,” she specifies a little further, recalling the context of “tensions and violence proven in our country: no one can turn a blind eye to the resurgence, in recent days, of anti-Semitic and racist acts”.
Initially, last week, Sibyle Veil simply retweeted the message posted by Adèle Van Reeth, Tuesday October 31, in the space reserved for the mediator on the Radio France website. The director of France Inter said she joined “expressed discomfort” by the listeners, considering that a ” limit ” had been “crossed” : “not that of law, but that of respect and dignity”. Behind the scenes however, Sibyle Veil had, last week, informed Guillaume Meurice of his wish to see him publicly acknowledge an error. “I practice humor, caricature, political satire, and excess is part of itpleads Guillaume Meurice. For me, the limit is the law”.
In her message to employees, the president of Radio France further condemns: “Public service is not available to individual commitments and personal careers”.
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