The so-called “gas” affair is unlikely to resurface any time soon. Jean-Michel Aphatie also reacted to the controversy of his previous tweet.
The so-called “gas” affair between Cyril Hanouna and Jean-Michel Aphatie refers to a tweet from Jean-Michel Aphatie where he used the expression “Hanouna visibly in the gas: “ I just listened to a lunar half-hour on Europe1. Cyril Hanouna and his columnists denounced the “morality” and “condescension” of France Inter. “I can’t take it anymore,” said Hanouna, visibly on the verge of gas, with one listener even threatening to leave France if the radio station doesn’t change. Half an hour on the planet Mars was quite funny. Let’s say that Europe 1 has changed a lot. Surprising, isn’t it?”
This formulation obviously sparked a lively controversy on social networks. Valérie Bénaïm, columnist for the show Cyril Hanouna. gave a rant about Europe 1: “ I’m very angry, I’ve had enough, the cup is full! I’m tired of people having fun playing with innuendo, with words where we put “camping”, “at the edge of the gas” and then we come to say backpedaling and walking on a ridge line “it’s you who see evil everywhere, we didn’t mean that”. But those who wanted to understand it, they understood it very well! “
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Why this controversy?
The use of the word “gas” in this context would have been seen by some as an allusion to the gas chambers used during the Holocaust, which was considered extremely offensive. Although Jean-Michel Aphatie claimed that his intention was simply to highlight Hanouna’s exasperation, it must be recognized that the ambiguity of the expression and the historical context made this interpretation difficult for many people to accept. Jean-Michel Aphatie also justified himself in a very long text on Twitter and denied any intention of anti-Semitism: “Since my tweet is causing discussion, let’s chat. When I wrote it, I did not think of Cyril Hanouna as a citizen belonging to this or that cultural community. I thought of him as a vindictive host of a mediocre radio moment. » He detailed the context and what prompted him to tweet, explaining that these are “the elements that constituted my feelings when writing the tweet. This transcribes the emotion that was mine, an amusement in the face of so much accumulated stupidity.”
The journalist formally refuted the accusations of anti-Semitism: “ I do not grant a particle of sincerity to those who formulate it. I noted the rage of Gauthier Bret, who I understand is capable of going very far to please his boss. I also heard Olivier Dartigolles rediscovering the old accents of the communist family to bring artificial trials. I have read and heard a lot of other nonsense. But I also noted the countless reactions of people who were surprised, amused or even scandalized by the accusations made against me, not out of sympathy for me but because they seemed to them a model of stupidity and bad behavior. faith.”
These are not the first tensions between Cyril Hanouna and Jean-Michel Aphatie. These are even recurring. The two men have divergent political views, and each accuses the other of being unprofessional or biased.
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