At the start of the week, Jean-Pierre Pernaut retired from the air to give way to Jacques Legros. After the measures taken by the government to fight against the coronavirus Covid-19, the host of the 13h TF1 decided to stay caulked at home with his wife and their two teens, Lou and Tom, aged 17 and 16 respectively. However, in a video posted on Twitter, he revealed that he was going to have a column at the end of the newspaper, all live from his home.. "We installed a small automatic studio at my place and every day, or almost, when the news will allow it, at the end of the newspaper, new section: "The newspaper at home" with reports on our daily lives for all: what do we do when we is confined? ", he said to stay in touch with his loyal viewers during this period.
If this situation seems to suit him, Jean-Pierre Pernaut remains very angry. In the columns of Parisian in newsstands Thursday March 19, animator lashed out at the authorities, who do not have been "fairly alarmist" from the start. "I blame everyone who said that this would not happen in France. We lost time. Until Emmanuel Macron's first intervention last Thursday (Editor's note: March 12), we were asked to wash our hands and then stop visiting elderly people in retirement homes. But there was no border control, in airports ", did he declare.
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According to the 69-year-old presenter, people were not aware of the danger. "Young people in particular did not realize that it was serious", he assured. "This weekend, I did not go to vote. It was out of the question that I would leave my house and take the slightest risk. Sunday, evening 15, we saw images of these young people partying in the streets from Paris, it was unconscious. Like allowing the supporters of the PSG-Dortmund match to be outside the stadium a week ago. The whole world had to watch us wondering what we were doing … We should have said earlier how dangerous it was ", he concluded.
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