The appearance of Nathalie Marquay in "Touche pas à mon poste!" Monday night on C8 turned into a debate on Covid-19. Invited to talk about her book entitled Un signe de toi - Sa âme guide mes pas (Guy Trédaniel editions) nearly two years after Jean-Pierre Pernaut's death, she says that her late husband's health deteriorated after he received a third dose of his vaccine.
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Without wishing to convey anti-vaccine theses, having used them herself during the health crisis, Nathalie Marquay is convinced that Jean-Pierre Pernaut's death is linked to the administration of this third dose while, at the same time, he was being treated with radiotherapy. For more than an hour, Cyril Hanouna and his columnists revived a lively debate on Covid-19 and vaccination.
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"In the anti-vax conspiracy theory, there was also the 'but who?' that existed and was despicable"
Géraldine Maillet
"What we're seeing today is that all those who have questions (about the vaccine) have been kicked out," the "TPMP" host said. "You have amnesia then because in the anti-health pass or anti-vaccine demonstrations, there was the whole anti-Semitic fringe 'But who?'Géraldine Maillet wanted to recall. To Cyril Hanouna's question "Are all anti-vaxxers anti-Semitic?", the novelist immediately replied in the negative.
But this was not enough to avoid the wrath of Myriam Palomba, who repeatedly called her a "poor girl". "In the anti-vax conspiracy theory, there was also the 'but who?' that existed and which was despicable," defended Géraldine Maillet. In the position of referee of the debate, Cyril Hanouna reproached the latter for making a bad amalgam. After a commercial break, the C8 host read messages from Internet users distorting the novelist's words.
"Géraldine Maillet was just reminding us of the obvious"
Éric Naulleau
"I never said that," she reacted when she heard the host read on X that she had claimed that "anti-Covid protesters are all anti-Semites" or that she was calling "anti-health pass anti-Semites." "That's not at all what she said," Valérie Benaïm and Hugo Manos confirmed with one voice. Cyril Hanouna was annoyed by reproaching his columnist for being "irrelevant" by evoking this movement.
"Géraldine Maillet did not say that all anti-pass demonstrators were anti-Semitic, she only reminded us of the obvious: the conspiracy and anti-vax milieu is infiltrated and animated by very active hardened anti-Semites. It's a fact," Éric Naulleau said on his social networks. But many accounts, such as InfoAlerts, which has more than 430,000 followers, wrongly write: "According to Géraldine Maillet, anti-vaccine protesters are 'anti-Semitic'."