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Zemmour controversy: CNews could have cut the editing

2020-10-01T14:08:41.015Z


The slippage of the polemicist on isolated children could have been removed before the broadcast on Tuesday evening. For the CSA to decide on a vent


At the top left, a dial indicates 7:56 p.m. when Christine Kelly, presenter of "Facing the news" and ex-member of the CSA, launches Eric Zemmour on the theme of isolated children Tuesday evening on CNews.

“They are thieves, they are murderers, they are rapists, that's all they are.

All, all, all!

», Argues the polemicist.

Before insisting.

“We must send them back, they must not even come”, he continued, proposing to leave the Convention on the Rights of the Child “which obliges us not to expel anyone”.

"We leave you the responsibility of your words", takes again Christine Kelly for the first time.

Then a second: "These words belong to you, they are not CNews".

Really?

The news channel of the Canal + group, which belongs to Vincent Bolloré, could however have cut this passage.

Indeed, the show "Face à l'Actu" is not broadcast live, as one might think, but recorded thirty minutes before its broadcast on the air, since last October - out of confinement - following several slips.

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In other words, when Eric Zemmour makes his controversial outing on isolated children, it is actually 7:26 pm.

Time for Serge Nedjar, the managing director present in charge, to remove this part, if necessary.

"The question of a cut arose once without it being applied," says a columnist of the show.

The evening when Eric Zemmour compared the green of the Greens to Islam ”, at the end of June.

This Thursday morning, Elisabeth Moreno, Minister Delegate in charge of Diversity and Equal Opportunities, asked the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism (Dilcrah) to seize the public prosecutor, before the Paris prosecutor's office opens an investigation for "provocation to racial hatred" and "racist public insults", in parallel with the complaint of SOS Racisme.

She also announced to have exchanged on this subject with Roch-Olivier Maistre, president of the Superior council of audio-visual, on which all eyes are focused from now on.

In view of possible sanctions?

An independent rapporteur

Within the monitoring institution, it is specified that, as CNews has already been put on formal notice for similar facts, new referrals, which have not yet been recorded, will be sent to an independent reporter who will decide to initiate prosecution and if necessary, to instruct the sanctions procedure, then to submit its proposals to the CSA, which will decide once all the cards are in hand.

In December 2019, the PAF gendarme had put CNews on notice to respect its obligations, particularly in terms of incitement to hatred or violence, following Eric Zemmour's comments on Islam and the war of Algeria, held in the same program "Face à l'Info".

A sanction identical to that of LCI, two months earlier, after the live broadcast, this time, of the speech at the convention of the right of Eric Zemmour, since fined 10,000 euros for public insult and provocation public to discrimination, hatred or violence because of a religion.

At the time, the CSA had also called for "the responsibility of the audiovisual media".

So it could go even further today.

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Contacted, the former Sage Mémona Hintermann-Afféjee speaks of “intolerable” remarks and “recidivism”.

She denounces "aggravating circumstances" for CNews due to the fact that "Face à l'Actu" is not live.

For her, the Superior Audiovisual Council should bang its fist on the table, asking "heavy financial penalties such as the 3 million euros fine imposed on C8", after a hoax deemed homophobic in the show " Don't touch my post ”in May 2017. A deprivation of advertising screens could also be considered.

Fuel your own buzz

"With such slippages, Zemmour makes the audience

(Editor's note: 545,000 viewers Tuesday, 589,000 Wednesday)

and brings money to the channel, underlines Memona Hintermann-Afféjee.

The CSA could also very well temporarily withdraw the frequency to this channel which insults part of France.

You have to go back twenty-five years to find such a sanction.

At the beginning of 1995, the Skyrock antenna was suspended for 24 hours for having joked about the death of the policeman Georges Janvier during a shooting in Nice.

When contacted, neither the management of CNews nor that of the Canal + group wished to comment.

But according to our information, "Facing the news" should return, this Thursday evening at 7 pm, on the sequence in question (which we have fully watched).

Which amounts to feeding its own buzz, like "TPMP".

The channel's journalists reject any call for a boycott

In his defense, Eric Zemmour attenuated, secondly, his remarks by conceding to Christine Kelly's reaction that "all unaccompanied minors are not thieves, rapists".

While adding: "But as there are many who are becoming it, we must protect the French and not let anyone in.

"And to conclude the program by denouncing a" permanent invasion ", term" assumed "by the polemicist.

In a press release, the CNews editors' company, for its part, condemns "with the greatest firmness the remarks made by Eric Zemmour".

On the other hand, the journalists reject any call for a boycott of channel 16: "Boycotting our channel is boycotting the work of an editorial staff which is not limited to the thought of a single man", on the air five hours per week.

“We do not have to pay for the words of Eric Zemmour, they write […].

We are not Eric Zemmour.

"

Source: leparis

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