FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN DANGER?
Comic Guillaume Meurice is formally fired from Radio France
Revealed on Tuesday June 11, 2024 at 3:31 p.m. | Estimated studying time: 3 min. After months of suspense, comic Guillaume Meurice is fired by Radio France for his repeated feedback about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnyahu. AFP
The administration of Radio France made its resolution this Tuesday morning, June 11, to dismiss the columnist and’comic from France Inter, Guillaume Meurice, continued has his controversial remarks made and repeated in regards to the Israeli Prime MinisterI’m Benjamin Netanyahu. Whereas’a part of the France Inter editorial employees protested in opposition to the disciplinary sanctions imposedcombat taken extra tapart fromin opposition to the’comic, the president of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, justifies Meurice’s dismissal by the persistence of his remarks in opposition to the Israeli Prime Minister and his disloyalty. Observers are ready for the Belgian’s response, Charline Vanhoenacker, producer and presenter of thepresent “Le Grand Dimanche Soir” during which Guillaume Meurice participated.
By repeating his controversial remarks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Guillaume Meurice notably “ ignoranceIt’s l’warning that’he had reçu, the warning of the’My face » (the audiovisual regulator) and “ he did not go away us d’different alternative than to attract the results of his obstinacy and his disloyalty rIt’spIt’stIt’se », Wrote the boss of Radio France, Sibyle Veil, in a message consulted by AFP. Nonetheless, she assures that freedom of expression and humor aren’t at risk inside French public service radio stations.
Dismissal for severe misconduct
Earlier than his dismissal, the feedback of Guillaume Meurice, who had induced controversy by evaluating Benjamin Netanyahu to “ a type of Nazi with out prechip ”, had been the topic of a criticism for “ provocation has violence and has antise hatredmite » et « public insults to characterantis periodIt’smite “. However on the finish of April, the courts closed the case with out additional motion.
On the power of this resolution, the columnist and comic then reiterated his remarks in opposition to the Israeli Prime Minister, which then resulted in him being ousted from the air till the administration of Radio France decided. Meurice was subsequently dismissed for severe misconduct.
If his Belgian colleague, the producer of the present “Le Grand Dimanche Soir”, Charline Vanhoenacker, has not but publicly reacted to Meurice’s dismissal, she had advocated appeasement initially of the affair final October. She then apologized to listeners who could have been harm by Meurice’s feedback, but additionally needed to remind people who the feedback have been aimed solely on the Israeli Prime Minister and never on the Jewish folks as a complete. Nonetheless, she was outraged by the demise threats that the columnist had obtained following his feedback.
A bone to gnaw in accordance with Alex Vizorek
Alex Vizorek, a former colleague of Meurice, additionally reacted final November within the present “Quelle Époque! ” saying : ” I perceive all factors of view. I perceive the individuals who have beentit is contacts epidermically and virtually with tears in his eyes. […] Can-ehPerhaps it wasn’t the fitting time to make that joke.ehpositive it wasn’t like çfrom which’it needed to be achieved. However I additionally assume that ça a It’stIt’s instrumentalistborn by individuals who’likedcombat not France Inter and who discovered a trAnds good bone has gnawing with this matter to say look what’we do together with your cash. Which is at all times the chance when doing public radio ».
Lastly, the remainder of the “Grand Dimanche Soir” workforce expressed solidarity with Meurice, notably Aymeric Lompret, one other comic on the present, who introduced on his networks a couple of minutes after the announcement of Meurice’s dismissal that he resigned in solidarity: “ plus Guillaume = plus Aymeric. Thanks for every little thing France Inter ».
Coverage response
For his half, Guillaume Meurice dedicates, on X (previously Twitter), his dismissal to far-right politicians and columnists. His ouster from public radio is eminently political and the left was fast to react both, with François Ruffin seizing the affair to make an instance of it.
Certainly, beneath the banner of bringing collectively the left with the formation of a “standard entrance”, François Ruffin believes that the case of Guillaume Meurice illustrates the 2 political realities that are at present clashing in France. The Meurice affair might subsequently effectively transcend the microcosm of the media to ask itself into the debates for the legislative elections
L.J.
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