I wasn’t crazy about Guillaume Meurice’s joke when he said it on October 29, 2023, “Benyamin Netanyahu, a kind of Nazi but without a foreskin”, the evocation of the foreskin to attack a leader, did not seem to me the best angle of attack.
But who am I to judge?
Well, just a colleague who might also have an unfortunate word…
But when Guillaume Meurice repeated this joke “Benyamin Netanyahu, a kind of Nazi but without a foreskin” it was on April 28, 2024, four days after the decision of the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office which closed the two offenses in question (provocation). to hatred and aggravated public insult) not being characterized.
On April 22, 2024, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office (but who is he to judge? Well, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office anyway…) therefore concluded that Guillaume Meurice was cleared of any suspicion of racial hatred. We can understand that someone accused and then cleared of provoking hatred and aggravated public insult might want to make it known.
On April 28, Guillaume Meurice took the liberty of making a joke about the joke. A vengeful, impertinent snub, which I imagined was conclusive. It was insolent yes but, of course who am I to judge but still, what would humor be without a dose of insolence? And then, reporting on a court decision cannot be condemnable.
The management of - therefore decided to put a piece back in the box.
It’s a bit of a shame for Guillaume Meurice whose name will now be definitively associated with a joke which perhaps (but who am I to judge?) was not his best.
It is extremely unfortunate for - whose management, after the decision of the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, could have played appeasement, shown itself to be a good sport, but once again, in a deleterious setback, is attacking the practice of humor, freedom of expression, two notions which since I listened to France Inter, and that I am attached to it, are part of its DNA.
Well, you will tell me, who am I to judge?
A simple collaborator of France Inter, holder of a column well placed to know that humor is a perilous practice. Furthermore, a France Inter listener is slightly worried about the future of his favorite station.
We don’t joke with humor on France Inter. The slogan has rarely seemed so threatening.
