This Friday, live, the channel L’Équipe wrongly announced the death of Bernard Tapie, businessman and former president of Olympique de Marseille. The group later apologized.
The blunder this Friday, live. This afternoon the viewers of L’Équipe had the bad surprise to discover on the news banner of the television channel the death of Bernard Tapie, businessmen and former president of Olympique de Marseille. The information banner was supposed to indicate that Olympique Lyonnais player Houssem Aouar was positive for Covid-19. Carine Galli, who presented the show live, and her team, did not realize the error.
Contacted by the site puremedias.com, the channel wanted to react: “The channel L’Équipe would like to apologize to Bernard Tapie and his relatives, as well as to his viewers, for the broadcast, by mistake, of a false information. The channel L’Équipe supports Bernard Tapie more than ever in his fight against the disease. “
The channel L’Équipe would like to apologize to Bernard Tapie and his family, as well as to his viewers, for the broadcast, by mistake, of false information.
The L’Équipe channel supports Bernard Tapie more than ever in his fight against disease.– the L’Équipe channel (@lachainelequipe) August 28, 2020
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This is not the first time that the Marseille businessman has been announced wrongly dead: in 2019, the newspaper Le Monde published Bernard Tapie’s obituary on its website. However, in the article, the date of death and the businessman’s age had been replaced by points of suspicion or “X’s”. Subsequently, the national daily had apologized to the person concerned as well as to his community of readers: “Following a technical failure, ten texts stored in our editorial system were published by mistake for a few minutes this Thursday, October 31, including an obituary dedicated to Bernard Tapie. We apologize to Mr. Tapie and to our readers for this regrettable incident “
Subsequently, Bernard Tapie had reacted, jokingly. Contacted by Franz-Olivier Giesbert, a writer, journalist and columnist for the weekly Le Point, he said: “The announcement of my death byThe worldis, as Mark Twain said, ‘very exaggerated’ “.
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