His answers were eagerly awaited.
At the heart of a recent documentary, ex-influencer Jérôme Jarre assured Monday that “all the money” raised by the controversial humanitarian project “Love Army”, which he had created in the mid-2010s before disappearing, was donated to NGOs.
Broadcast since Wednesday on the Amazon Prime platform, and entitled “#LoveArmy: where are you Jérôme?”
», this documentary returns to the humanitarian project Love Army, which abruptly ended in 2018 after raising around four million euros for Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh.
Its founder, Jérôme Jarre, then disappeared from the radar, fueling rumors about the use of Love Army funds.
“The teaser of the documentary implies that we do not know where the money is, which is extremely serious,” reacted Monday the influencer, who had refused “on principle” to participate in this “incriminating” documentary .
“The money was spent, it was given to associations,” he assured during an interview for the Canal+ show “Clique”, recalling that the actions of the Love Army in Bangladesh made the subject of a report, published in 2022.
“A huge mistake”
Also accused of having lied to a France 2 team, by falsely asserting that houses in a refugee camp had been built by the Love Army, Jérôme Jarre admitted “a huge error”.
“The journalists came but we couldn’t present anything to them, I panicked,” he said.
The ex-influencer, who says he is now based in South Africa, also returned to the Love Army's collaboration with IHH, a Turkish humanitarian association accused of supporting terrorist groups.
“They are suspected of that, but it has nothing to do with what they did (
in Bangladesh
),” he replied, explaining that he had selected associations to “make the money flow directly to the Rohingya.”
Denouncing a documentary which "zooms in fully on the problems", he also highlighted "all the good things that have been done" in Bangladesh, where the funds raised by the Love Army have, according to him, made it possible to build houses or wells for the refugees.
“I certainly didn’t want the light,” he also said.
When I left my life as an influencer, it was good because I was giving up all that.
I wanted to give visibility to those who need it.
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