The reality show "Les Vacances des Anges" will not be filmed on Reunion Island, the production finally announced on Monday.
She believes that the health and safety of the candidates are not assured after an altercation on Sunday.
"The filming of the show has not yet started", the production company La Grosse Equipe announces that "the new show
Les Vacances des Anges
will ultimately not be produced on Reunion Island".
“The health and safety of the production team, candidates and everyone involved in the shoot is our top priority.
Following the recent incident, outside the filming of the show […], La Grosse Equipe noted that the conditions for serenity were no longer met to allow the show to be filmed on Reunion Island ”.
The address of the broadcast location
As the production explained to us on Sunday, the shooting was to begin “tomorrow Monday, everything was ready”.
But on social networks thousands of messages, often openly xenophobic, condemned the “Angels” and asked them to “return home”.
The address of the filming location, a high-class villa on the west coast, has been posted online and calls for a “against the demons” rally have been made.
Posted on Sunday evening, a petition demanding the cancellation of the filming of the show had collected more than 13,800 signatures Monday afternoon.
The protagonists released after their custody
A fight broke out on Sunday between candidates and several families, including that of the mayor of Saint-André (east), Joe Bedier, in the restaurant of a 4-star hotel in Saint-Denis, requiring the intervention of the police who questioned three of the protagonists of the show.
Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu gave his support to Joe Bedier, like almost the entire local political class.
Nehuda and Ricardo, the two "Angels", and Pauline, the "nanny" of the Angels, were released on Monday after their custody, without any charge being held against them for the moment. , said a judicial source.
An investigation opened for "willful violence"
On the other hand, the production indicated in the afternoon that the two candidates who were to participate in the filming of season 4 of the reality show "are permanently removed from the show, they will not participate in the filming and will leave La Meeting from the first hour ”.
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Their release annoyed the mayor of Saint-André.
"So we come here, we are smashed and we leave," he lamented to journalists on the announcement of their release.
"The investigations are continuing of course," said the public prosecutor Eric Tuffery.
Sunday afternoon, he opened an investigation for willful violence in a meeting following an altercation in the hotel dining room.