Celebrity acquired too quickly?
The Prime Video documentary series
“#Love Army – Where are you Jérôme?”
describes it effectively.
Not without redundancies, but with humor and modern production codes, the film attacks the "Love Army, a movement launched by Jarre, one hand on his heart the other on his phone, to help populations in distress, including the Rohingya.
On paper, a great initiative.
The problem, not least, is the facts.
Several million funds raised.
Huge buzz.
Strange partnerships.
And then nothing more.
But what happened to the money?
And this question that the documentary asks: Where are you Jérôme?
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After weeks of silence,
Jérôme Jarre
tried to explain himself this Monday March 25 on the set of
“Clique”
, the daily interview with Mouloud Achour, on Canal+.
“I saw this documentary, yeah.
And I'm here to answer them.
I'm here to talk about it.
To both recognize my mistakes, because I made big mistakes in communications.
I made nonsense on the communications about this Rohingya adventure.
And at the same time to say the things that are missing from this documentary to be able to understand this adventure
,” began the young man, visibly less comfortable with this exercise than in most of his posts on social networks.
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So, the host asks him:
“Since the film came out, what has happened to you?”
.
Answer just as unclear...
“Since the release of the film... I receive a lot of not very cool things on the networks, you can imagine.
What needs to be clarified is that the teasing of this documentary suggests that we don't know where the money is.
Which is extremely serious.
I would be revolted to see that in action
,” adds Jérôme.
And the viewer wonders.
Either Jérôme is very shy and struggles to express himself clearly on set.
Either he's very uncomfortable and that's hiding something...
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The series does not tell the story of a conman
The presenter comes to his aid.
“In Le Monde,
he reads
, the producer of the film says that there was no scam, that the #Love Army report published on Twitter last June certifies that the money was indeed given to of NGOs and that Jérôme Jarre saw very, very big, very, very high, and that he got caught in a wall
.
He adds that the director of the film clarified that the series does not tell the story of a conman.
The money that was raised was given to associations.
But it is the question of the management of this money, whether with local associations or in the decisions that the young man was able to make, which turned out to be not necessarily good or even sometimes bad.
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“It's still extremely serious that a large part of the people who watch this documentary say to themselves: we don't know if this guy left with the money. Even though media less impactful than Prime Video
(such as the major daily Le Monde, Editor's note)
clarify this.
The money was given to NGOs.
This is still what we must remember about this project.
From there, when I understand that I have to give the money to NGOs, technically, if I want, I can go home.
I can just explain online: We are not allowed to do direct cash
(direct cash is a process which consists of paying the money collected directly to people without going through associations or organizations, Editor's note)
.
We're going to give to this association.
Choose associations.
I decided to stay at that point.
I had already been in the camp for two months.
I decided to stay to accompany, to find out which associations will trickle down the donations, especially to the Rohingyas.
It's actually much clearer like that...