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We are going to meet young people who have agreed to testify about their sexuality, in an undisclosed location.
They also wanted to remain anonymous
, ”explained the voiceover.
Bernard de La Villardière presented, last March on M6, a report entitled "Sex and love in West Africa", on the difficulty of living one's sexuality freely in this region of the world.
The cameras stopped in particular in Senegal to evoke the homophobia present in the country.
One of the speakers, in his sixties, today accuses the channel of having attacked his anonymity, reveals Mediapart.
His lawyer claims 10,000 euros in compensation.
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“They jumped on me”
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Before the shooting, we had agreed to do the entire interview in my apartment.
I had to look for the journalists and the presenter just around the corner, but as soon as they got out of the car, they started filming without anyone's permission (...) I didn't know they were going to put in a club what I said in the street because I thought everything had to happen inside.
If I had known that, I would never have answered
, "storm in Médiapart the witness, also an activist for the rights of homosexual people and an expert on HIV issues with UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV. /AIDS.
“We consider that we have not failed in our obligations”
M6
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Homophobes who lived in my neighborhood, who saw the show, shared it with everyone to say that I was a notorious homosexual, who had to be eliminated (...) They screwed up my life, s 'They had respected the commitments and not broadcast my street, I would never have left my country
,' continues the activist, who explains that he took advantage of the invitation to a conference in France on HIV to seek asylum there.
In Senegal, several people would have gone to his home, and would have turned it upside down.
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As soon as I opened, they jumped on me, pushed me around, started looking for my father everywhere, putting everything on the floor.
They asked me where he was
, ”says the daughter of the person concerned to Mediapart.
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Regarding the passage filmed in the street where he lives,
replied M6 in March to the Senegalese activist's lawyer,
contrary to your assertion, the journalist had previously asked your client if it was possible to to film in the street, which he accepted by answering Bernard de La Villardière's questions;
during this interview, he specified that his neighborhood was “completely tolerant” and that his landlady knew of his situation but that she was “gay-friendly”.
Also, we consider that we have not failed in our obligations.
Joined by Mediapart, the chain adds that it does not believe in the aggression of the Senegalese.