Designer for a few years, Rihanna organized last October, a colorful parade to present her new collection of lingerie Savage x Fenty. During the show, a song remix was then broadcast by the DJ, an electro track including a hadith, a collection of the acts and words of Muhammad and his companions. A choice of music qualified as blasphemous, which quickly generated a controversy on a worldwide scale, forcing the singer to clarify things and to apologize to the Muslim community.
On the set of the show “Touche pas à mon poste” the day after the controversy, Cyril Hanouna and his team returned to the case to give their points of view. Present the set that day, the Tunisian columnist and host Meriem Debbagh condemned this error “Me, I find that limit I want to kill her because it is not done at all Already her parade is shit … Her parade is already catastrophic, lingerie sucks ”she declared. The young woman was then cropped by Cyril Hanouna who had not hesitated to ask her to watch her words, specifying that in the name of freedom of expression, we could not say that we “wanted to kill her “.
The CSA makes its decision
This sequence had then generated the referral of the Superior Council of Audiovisual by several viewers, shocked by such remarks. Four months after the double scandal, the CSA noted “the inappropriateness of the remarks in question”, but noted that “the host had quickly reacted in order to condemn them and to recall the need to protect freedom of expression”.
As a result, the Council did not identify any failure by the channel to fulfill its obligations and did not intervene with it. The CSA also recalled that it was not competent “to pronounce on the tortious character”, “if applicable”, “of remarks made on the air whose assessment is the sole responsibility of the judicial authority” .
By ES
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