The deputy of La France insoumise Manuel Bompard was invited by RMC and BFMTV this Tuesday morning. He returned to the clash between Cyril Hanouna and Louis Boyard, saying that his LFI colleague was not at fault.
What was initially just a televised confrontation takes on a judicial dimension. Indeed, after their violent verbal quarrel in the context of the Touche pas à mon poste program on C8 last Thursday, the presenter Cyril Hanouna and the LFI deputy Louis Boyard announced in turn on Monday that they would press charges against each other ‘other. Louis Boyard accuses the channel host of repeated insults while Cyril Hanouna accuses the deputy of defamation.
Invited on RMC and BFMTV this Tuesday morning, Manuel Bompard, LFI MP and colleague of Louis Boyard, returned to this sequence, stating that the young MP was absolutely not at fault in this affair.
“It’s not a confrontation, it’s not mutual insults, it’s not what happened on this set. What happened is that a deputy from LFI in this case, but it would have been another deputy, would have been the same question, who came to this set, was wrong to criticize Mr. Bolloré’s activities in Africa on a channel that belongs to him. And Mr. Hanouna completely lost his means, his composure and started insulting Mr. Boyard. So we will not start saying that Mr. Boyard is guilty of receiving insults from Mr. Hanouna,” considers Manuel Bompard.
A bill against anti-concentration in the media is on the way
According to him, this confrontation which has turned into insults is not a specific problem of La France insoumise.
“It is unacceptable that an elected representative of the Republic, whatever his political label, is insulted by a television. And then, when you go on a TV channel, you have the right to say what you want, you have the right to criticize the head of the channel, you have the right to say that his activities in Africa are not acceptable,” he adds.
Manuel Bompard also believes that this sequence reveals another problem, that of media concentration.
“When you know that 90% of the media is owned by nine people, that poses a democratic problem, when you see the importance of the media in our democratic life. So going to reproach Louis Boyard for having worked for this program and telling him after being paid prevents him from criticizing the head of this channel, it is a political vision in which I will never find myself. It’s like telling employees of a company that they have no right to criticize their boss,” he explains.
He said his political group would introduce a bill “on anti-concentration in the media to ensure that there can no longer be a monopoly situation, which means that almost all media is owned by a very small minority.
