It is sitting cross-legged in her living room and with a serious and serious air that Cécile Siméone, former television host now converted into an interior designer, addressed her 72,000 subscribers on her Instagram account on Saturday. The former Canal+ employee claims to have been attacked by a cyclist at a red light, when she had just passed him by car.
According to his account, the events took place on Friday, on a road linking the town of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon to Lyon. “Like every day, I take the path to Fontanières, which is very winding, very narrow and two-way,” first contextualizes Cécile Siméone, recalling that she was going to her place of work.
“I pass a cyclist, then I see him moving in my rear-view mirror,” she continues. “I tell myself that he must not be happy. Maybe he thought I had walked too close to him, which is absolutely not the case. »
The interior designer then finds herself stopped at a red light. Still according to his version of the facts, the cyclist then passed him and parked his bike against his bumper. She then rolls down the window and asks him in a firm tone what he is doing. “I don’t have time to finish my sentence, this gentleman hit me,” she says.
“Yesterday I took a punch. I was not pushed, nor slapped, nor did my hair be pulled. No, I took a punch,” she continues, visibly still marked by the events. “I have nothing, don’t worry. I was lucky enough to turn my head, so I caught it in my ear. Well, my cartilage still hurts, but everything else is fine,” she then reassures.
The ex-host then explains that she will not file a complaint. “I'm not going to go to a police station and piss off the police for five hours with my photo of this guy from behind,” she explains, describing her attacker as a man in his sixties with white beard.
Cécile Siméone took the opportunity to point out the policy of the metropolis of Lyon in terms of planning – while elected officials try to give pride of place to soft mobility. “It’s poorly managed, there are aberrations (…) Today, a car in Lyon does not exceed 30 km/h, the bikes go faster than us (…) Many bikes do not respect the Code of the road. It’s the truth, and it creates this kind of tension,” she concludes.
