“You are the racists!” : Géraldine Maillet gets carried away against her TPMP comrades

“But you’re mentally ill”. Every evening, Cyril Hanouna brings together on the set of Do not touch My TV its columnists to discuss topical issues. On the program: clashes, controversies and positions that sometimes unleash passions on set. Like the recent installation of a gorilla in a supermarket, to present exotic fruits and vegetables. An image that gave rise to a debate in the C8 program to know if this installation in “the Caribbean ray” of the establishment was to be sanctioned, being interpreted by some as racism.

“By association of idea, as if by chance, a stand of exotic fruits, we associate a gorilla“thus deplored Gilles Verdez, who explains, according to him, that in “people’s minds, Africans are monkeys”. A position that shocked Géraldine Maillet, who accused the columnist of “mentally ill”qualifying his reflection “dangerous”. “In fact racism is serious enough to see it there when there is none”she adds, before observing that on the stand, you could see avocados, kiwis and pineapples, products that “do not come from Africa but from the Caribbean”she recalled. “If we had put a giraffe or a hippopotamus, wouldn’t you have found that racist?“she asked Gilles Verdez.

Géraldine Maillet: “You are the sick”

Very upbeat, the columnist, who is regularly tackled for her positions, outbids her by asking the columnist if he necessarily made the association between “gorilla, africa and black”. While many defended themselves by stating that this association was made on social networks, the wife of Daniel Riolo did not mince words to answer them: “But no not at all, you are the racists! There is no connection to be made, it is you who are sick in fact“. A subject which, once again, did not put the chroniclers of Do not touch My TV OK.

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