For his return to the air of France Inter, Sunday November 12, Guillaume Meurice first, in the first hour of the program “Le Grand Dimanche Soir”, broadcast from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., played the card of ‘irony. “Are you there? »asked the host of the show, Charline Vanhoenacker. “I don’t know for how long yet. But my badge is still activated, so I’m here. »
Returning, around 7:25 p.m., to the excitement caused by his column of October 29, Guillaume Meurice first thanked, using scathing humor, “for messages of support” and the “personal messages of love” – hear: of hatred – which he received.
Then, faithful to his habit of the sidewalk microphone and “for the sake of appeasement”, he gave voice to unexpected interlocutors. In this case, a decolonial Jewish collective, Tsedek!, which “fight against state racism in France and for the end of apartheid/occupation in Israel/Palestine” (according to his Instagram account), so that he endorses what he wanted to express in a, at least, very concise manner. “ [Le premier ministre israélien Benyamin] Netanyahu supports a movement of fascistization of the political field of Israeli societydeclared a representative of the collective. The coalition that allowed him to come to power and which is currently in charge in Israel is made up of ministers who one would not hesitate to designate as neo-Nazis if it were not Israel. »
On October 29, the comedian described the Israeli Prime Minister as “Nazi without foreskin”, triggering a large-scale controversy. On October 31, the director of France Inter, Adèle Van Reeth, recognized “share the discomfort” expressed by hundreds of listeners, while Sibyle Veil, the boss of Radio France, sent him a warning on November 6. A disciplinary sanction that Guillaume Meurice intends to contest with the industrial tribunal, as he announced to the World the same day.
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“If we are here this evening, it is because we have overcome our differences and we have confidence in Guillaume”, explained Charline Vanhoenacker at the start of the show, Sunday shortly after 6 p.m. Specifying to use first degree in order to be “well understood for everyone”the band leader had explained that if listeners had been “shocked, or hurt, or both” by ” a joke “ of his colleague, if they had “laughed” before ” to regret “if the words used had ” embarrassed “, ” split “, ” makes think “ or even done “pass through several states”, they were not the only ones. The twenty or so collaborators on the show had also been affected by similar feelings, at the origin of “endless debates” between them.
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