The France Inter comedian made the news public even before the press got hold of it. In a message titled “About freedom of expression…”accompanied by a clown emoticon, https://twitter.com/GMeurice/status/1786055856305426598/photo/1Thursday May 2 at the end of the afternoon, Guillaume Meurice announced that he was “called for a preliminary interview” by Radio France, “with a view to a possible disciplinary sanction which could go as far as early termination of [son] fixed-term contract for serious misconduct.”
“I will not participate in the next two “Le Grand Dimanche soir” broadcasts for reasons beyond my control”he wrote on the social network. “I am ordered to cease all professional activity at Radio France and not to report to my workstation before said interview », he adds, concluding “Hasta la laughter siempre!” ». Pending this interview, Mr. Meurice is suspended from the airwaves in the form of protective leave.
In his column on Sunday April 28, Guillaume Meurice reiterated the comments which had aroused criticism from part of the public at the start of the season on France Inter. “If I say: Netanyahu is a kind of Nazi, but without a foreskin, that’s fine, the prosecutor said that this week. Go ahead, make mugs, t-shirts, it’s my first joke authorized by French law”he laughed, to the applause of the audience.
An outcry among some listeners
A few days earlier, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office had pronounced the dismissal, Thursday April 18, of the complaint against the comedian for “provocation to violence and anti-Semitic hatred” And “public insults of an anti-Semitic nature”. “The two offenses covered by the complaint do not appear to be characterized”, had specified the public prosecutor, questioned by The worldMonday April 22.
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The complaint was filed on November 6, 2023 by “the European Jewish Organization [et avait] gave rise to a preliminary investigation led by the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the BRDP [brigade de répression de la délinquance contre la personne] » after Guillaume Meurice, Sunday October 29, embarked on an inventory of the “disguises to scare” as Halloween approaches. “So, at the moment, there is the Netanyahu disguise, which works quite well to scarehe said. Do you see who it is? Kind of a Nazi, but without a foreskin. »
The sentence caused an outcry among certain listeners, to the point of pushing Adèle Van Reeth, director of France Inter, to speak out after receiving several hundred emails. She then condemned the death threats “which are unacceptable and criminally reprehensible” of which the comedian was the target.
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