This decision was made “due to a still small team”, announced The Parisian . The information was confirmed to AFP by the management of public radio. The France Inter satirical show “Le grand Dimanche soir”, hosted live and in public by Charline Vanhoenacker, will take place this Sunday from 6 p.m. but will end at 7 p.m. instead of 8 p.m.
The team is reduced due to the suspension of Guillaume Meurice. Already on May 12, the show had already been impacted by this affair. A strike against the suspension of the host had prevented its broadcast.
The star columnist is still unclear about his future on public radio. He is awaiting possible sanction for his repeated comments against Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister. But he won’t be the only one absent. “His colleague Aymeric Lompret, another figure in the program, should once again stay away from the microphone as a sign of solidarity, as he has for two weeks”also adds The Parisian.
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Guillaume Meurice set for June 4 at the earliest
Guillaume Meurice was removed from the radio on May 2, four days after having reiterated his controversial comments about the Israeli Prime Minister made at the end of October. He compared it to a “kind of a Nazi but without a foreskin.” Comments which had earned him accusations of anti-Semitism and a complaint, recently closed without further action.
The host should be decided on his fate on Tuesday at the earliest, indicated the South union following a disciplinary committee on Thursday. The Radio France unions and the France Inter editorial staff had asked their management before this meeting to give up “to a dismissal decision” by Guillaume Meurice, believing that this “would create a serious precedent” For ” freedom of speech “.
