Cyril Hanouna, king of hearings and still record holder of fines. The host has just been imposed a new financial penalty from Arcom. More precisely, it is its broadcaster, C8 who will have to pay the fine, set at 300,000 euros.
This decision follows the broadcast of a sequence of "Touche pas à mon poste", on October 5, in which Cyril Hanouna had attacked the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. The latter, who did not participate in the show, was the subject of attacks by name by the presenter, says Arcom. Cyril Hanouna had indeed invited her to "shut her mouth" and "chase rats at night instead of saying". The regulator recalls that Hanouna had also put the mayor of Paris among a "band of morons", exclaiming "we do not piss off" and repeatedly reiterating the expression "shut your mouth".
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The Authority considered that these remarks were likely to infringe the rights of the mayor of Paris to respect her honor and reputation, "says the gendarme of the audiovisual. He also considers that this sequence reflects "a lack of knowledge by the publisher of his obligation to control his antenna".
Arcom, "in the light, on the one hand, of the nature, scale and gravity of those breaches and, on the other hand, of the previous penalties imposed for previous breaches of the same obligations", therefore "imposed a penalty of 300,000 euros against C8".
This new sanction of the media regulator against C8 comes four months after a record fine of 3.5 million euros because of the insults hurled by Cyril Hanouna to LFI MP Louis Boyard in TPMP. That is 10% of the annual amount paid by Canal+ for its contract with the host's production company...
