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Pending a possible sanction, the comedian is deprived of airtime on Radio France.
MEDIA – New twist after the joke about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreskin. In a tweet titled “ About freedom of expression », shared on Great Sunday evening.
In question ? The public radio troublemaker is summoned by “ the management of Radio France ” has a ” prior interview with a view to a possible disciplinary sanction which could go as far as termination of [son] CONTRACT ” fixed term.
“ I am ordered to cease all professional activity at Radio France and not to report to my workstation before said interview. », the date of which was not specified by Guillaume Meurice.
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This summons is justified by a “ serious misconduct », reports Guillaume Meurice. According to AFP, which cites corroborating sources, he is accused of having repeated his joke about Benjamin Netanyahu on air. On October 29, 2023, he had in fact qualified him as “kind of a Nazi but without a foreskin” during a column on a Halloween costume, a few days after the October 7 attack and the start of the Israeli response in the Gaza Strip. Which also earned the comedian a summons by the judicial police a few days later.
As indicated HumanityGuillaume Meurice has since repeated this joke on the air of France Inter only a few days ago, on April 28.
Complaints yet closed without further action
If the management of Radio France decided not to let the case go forward, this is not the case with the justice system which ultimately chose to abandon the legal proceedings against Guillaume Meurice, considering the alleged facts insufficiently characterized.
Complaints for “provocation to violence and anti-Semitic hatred” And “public insults of an anti-Semitic nature” had therefore been closed without further action by the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, as revealed on April 22 by Release.
Humanity underlines that this summons by the station management could rather be based on the recent warning from Arcom, which estimated that “ the risks of repercussions on the cohesion of our society could not be ignored, particularly in a context marked by the resurgence of anti-Semitic acts”although the media policeman also recognized the principle of “protection of the freedom of expression of comedians”.
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