Nearly a month has passed after the Zone Interdite report, which notably focused on the radical Islamism that is rampant in Roubaix (North), and Ophélie Meunier is breaking the silence. The presenter of the M 6 news program spoke on Wednesday on TMC’s Quotidien program, for the first time since the report which earned him death threats, to receive an award from Quotidien , the “Golden Q” of TV magazine.
“The golden Q that we give him this evening is also that of the freedom to inform”, launches the journalist of Daily newspaper Julien Bellver by way of introduction, in reference to these threats of which the journalist made the ‘object. “It’s been 29 years that Forbidden Zone offers (a) photograph of our society as faithful as possible,” she said when receiving the award. (…) You have to believe that sincerity and hard work pay off. »
“It’s a subject that affects my personal life”
On a personal level, the young mother says she is getting better and has managed to overcome the seriousness of the threats. “I speak little on the subject publicly because it is a subject that affects my personal life and my family, but that’s okay,” she says. And I smile today. »
If it had to be done again, Ophélie Meunier and the Zone Interdite teams would deal with this subject, she insists. “It’s true that it’s a sensitive subject that is often picked up by the far right. However, two months before the presidential election, it is a topic that is in the news and deserves to be raised. We, journalists, should not be stuck between the far right, which completely appropriates the subject, and radical Islamists who completely prevent us from talking about it, believes Ophélie Meunier. We journalists, our job is to talk about subjects as factually as possible, without ideology, and that’s what we did. »
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