The day after giving up his place to Adrien Rohard, Thomas Sotto took back control of Telematin on Tuesday June 4, 2024 on France 2. With the help of Lucie Chaumette, he accompanied the awakening of the French from 6:30 a.m.
The morning show, of which a columnist was forced to leave, was punctuated by the presence of Marine Le Pen. Five days before the European elections, the president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly was the guest of 4 Truths.
Thomas Sotto did not fail to question him about a controversy shaking the candidacy of Jordan Bardella. “I would like a few words to be said about an electoral poster which greatly displeased the director of the National Gendarmerie. Crossed out with the words ‘I am a gendarme’ and ‘On June 9, I am leaving Corsica!’ There’s one: ‘I vote for Bardella’. What is this poster saying?”he told her.
“Oh, it’s a whole series of visuals that have been made for the professions. There are nurses, bakers… And there are also the gendarmes because the gendarmes are not sub-citizens. They have the right to vote and therefore it is completely natural that a large movement, such as ours, also sends a message to them. I did not understand the violence of the reaction…”.replied the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
“What you are accused of is exploiting the name, the uniform… I will tell you what Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the Armed Forces, said: ‘Respecting the Republic means never exploiting the “army which protects the Nation for electoral purposes”, retorted the host who dared to ask an off-topic question to Cécile Bois. To which Marine Le Pen reacted strongly: “No lesson in electoralism from Renaissance! Especially with the three days that we will have with the President of the Republic who will use the commemorations of the Landing to carry out his campaign…”.
Thomas Sotto apologizes after the circulation of a doctored poster of Jordan Bardella
A few minutes later, Thomas Sotto wanted to return to his interview with Marine Le Pen. The host, who was “attacked” And “despised” on the set of Meternalapologized to viewers after a big mistake made on air. “A small correction: earlier, Marine Le Pen was the guest of 4 Truths and we talked about the controversy which arose from a campaign poster ‘I am a gendarme, I vote for Bardella on June 9’ which provoked the reaction of the head of the National Gendarmerie”he explained.
“And that Marine Le Pen accepts perfectly by saying that she does not see where the problem is. So our apologies for this poster error, we did not show you the right one…”added Laurent Delahousse’s joker to the France 2 weekend news while showing the correct campaign poster of the National Rally which should have been broadcast on the air.
In reality, the poster broadcast during Marine Le Pen’s interview, which stated “On June 9, I’m leaving Corsica!”, was taken from the Phineas Casgiu account. On X – formerly Twitter -, he had fun, during the day of Monday June 3, hijacking Jordan Bardella’s campaign poster. The resumption of this in Telematin did not fail to make him react: “I have just landed from my flight. I might as well tell you that after the canistrelli of Air Corsica, it has had its little effect”.
