The televiewers who had lit their station on the C8 channel this Monday evening could not believe their eyes or their ears. For weeks, Édouard Philippe has been taking all the precautions in the world to explain to the French that it is not possible, at this stage, to reveal a timetable for deconfinement, that these restrictions should continue after April 15 ... And here is that Cyril Hanouna begins to read live a "text message" that he says he received announcing the schedule of deconfinement, region by region.
"I don't know if this is good information, but it is information that runs, so I am giving it to you, information that I have received," warns the host, however. But the scene has something surreal about it: Cyril Hanouna begins to list the different regions, one after the other, with their respective deconfinement dates.
In front of their webcams, the columnists of the program listen religiously to the announcements of the host. To balance this all, the music of the show Miss France is broadcast in the background, bringing to the sequence an impression of unwelcome lightness, being a health crisis that kills thousands and has considerably impacted the lives of French people for three weeks.
"Neither the card nor the dates exist"
In detail, Cyril Hanouna said that the deconfinement would operate in three stages, starting on May 4 for the first regions, which correspond to the areas least affected by the epidemic at present. According to this scenario, Ile-de-France would emerge from containment last, on May 18, with Corsica and the Great East.
Where does this "information" come from? In any case, they reproduce exactly those contained in a card circulating on Monday on social networks and revealing the same calendar. A card notably relayed by the Jérôme Rodrigues Yellow Vest.
📢🧔🏻 I received this? Fake or not fake ?? 🤔 @ DidierMaisto @ Poulin2012 @PLudosky @FlyRiderGj @gaulois_l @RaquelGarridoFr @millerofficiel @GaccioB @collCartonJaune @CerveauxNon @GalouRoti @ Trickpa75 @NRamphft @tropical_boy @GiltJwkkxx.jg.
- Jerome Rodrigues Official (@J_Rodrigues_Off) April 6, 2020“If you watch the entire sequence, Cyril Hanouna takes precautions before and after giving the dates. He uses the conditional and specifies that the veracity of this card, which he does not show on the air, is not confirmed. This debate is an amusing sequence, in an entertainment program, nothing more, ”nuances a close friend of the production, interviewed by Le Parisien. The host himself assured on Twitter after the broadcast that he had said "100 times on the air that it (the card, editor's note) was false".
The sequence did not really make the executive laugh. Contacted by Le Parisien, the services of Edouard Philippe strongly denied the statements broadcast live by Cyril Hanouna. "Neither the card nor the dates exist," we were told in the Prime Minister's Office. And when you ask a counselor what inspires him to speak, live on television, in front of thousands of viewers, the answer is deliberately evasive but firm: "The same thing as you".
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"It's irresponsible," laments a senior government adviser. Also joined, a minister supported: "It's nonsense! It's like the deconfinement card that circulates on social networks. The veracity of the information on this card, relayed by Jérôme Rodrigues, was also denied on Twitter by the prefecture of the Hauts-de-France region and the North. “It contains the logos of several government departments. It is a forgery. Please do not relay it! », One can read.
A few minutes after the broadcast of the sequence on C8, the Canal + group had already isolated it to broadcast it in turn on its streaming service. But around 8 p.m., she was no longer available.
