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On the occasion of the promotion of his next book, the former president Nicolas Sarkozy was invited in the program of Yann Barthès, Quotidien, on TMC. A passage that has not gone unnoticed by Internet users.
This Thursday, September 10, the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy was on the set of the show Daily, presented by Yann Barthès on TMC. While on promotion for his next book, he spoke on a delicate subject. According to him "we can't say anything more" and this is the fault "elites who pinch their noses and are like monkeys, who listen to no one", he said, mimicking the figure of the three wise monkeys, one blind, the other deaf and the last mute. After that, Nicolas Sarkozy seems to get tangled up, he exclaims: "Are we allowed to say monkey? We no longer have the right to say the … What do we say? The ten little soldiers now? It progresses society ", he said, referring to the changing title of Agatha Christie's famous novel The ten little negroes, renamed They were ten. The former president continues: "See the book? We don't have the right now. We may no longer have the right to say monkey without insulting anyone."
This association between words "monkeys" and "niggers" hasn't gone unnoticed on social media and even caused an uproar. The confusion between these two terms has indeed generated a lively controversy. Ecologist MEP Yannick Jado, for example, denounces a "racist shipwreck". Audrey Pulvar didn't mince words either as she watched this somewhat embarrassing, even revolting for many footage: "I am prohibited in front of this excerpt from Daily. My heart is racing, I am shaking and my head is spinning. Disgust ? Shame (for you)? I do not know. We were already negroes, here we are monkeys ", she said on Twitter.
Contacted by RTL, the association SOS Racisme, for its part, deplores "a racist slip" : "I don't think Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to make this association on purpose, speaking of monkeys and then coming to the term 'niggers', but what is interesting is to see how leaders can have associations of extremely strange ideas or images. "