Charline Vanhoenacker announces the end of “Big Sunday evening”

“This time is really the last. Don’t you think it’s exceptional to attend a funeral on a Sunday evening? I love dark humor. Take advantage of it before it gets sent away on charter. » Charline Vanhoenackerthe host of the “Great Sunday evening” on France Inter, announced on Sunday June 23, with lots of references to political news, the end of its satirical show launched in 2014.

The program was heading in this direction. Since the start of the Meurice affair, at the end of October 2023, relations with the management of public radio had deteriorated. From Djamil le Shlag to Aymeric Lompret, several columnists had also slammed the door in support of their colleague, at the heart of a controversy after a bad joke about Benjamin Netanyahu. First removed from the air, the star of the show was fired at the beginning of June for “repeated disloyalty” towards Radio France.

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“Perhaps this is what awaits you tomorrow”

“We all expected it of course. For two months, we have been losing a columnist per week (…) Radio France sent us a grenade in the legs and the dissolution took a very, very long time”quipped Charline Vanhoenacker, parodying the words – “I threw my unpinned grenade at their legs. Now we’ll see how they get on…” – lent by The world to Emmanuel Macron after the dissolution of the National Assembly.

Faithful to the spirit of “Great Sunday evening”, the Belgian host took the opportunity to warn of the danger represented by the National Rally in power in France. With a certain freedom of tone. “The sound of the boots is not enough for them, they offer a little shoe polish on top”, she then said, evoking bosses less worried than others about the RN. “ This is what we call the Faf 40 index on the stock market.”

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In the mind of Guillaume Meurice who saw in his dismissal a “ideological victory” of the extreme right, Vanhoenacker concludes: “What is happening to us here is perhaps what also awaits you tomorrow in your businesses, in your associations, in your families. From July 7, you risk being in this situation at the time of choice: stay or slam the door. Resist from the inside or resist from the outside. »

On June 12, the station director, Adèle Van Reeth, assured in “Quotidien”: “France Inter is the most independent station in this regard because we do not depend on anyone.” She dismissed the idea of ​​any pressure having led to the departure of Guillaume Meurice. And claimed that he had put himself in this situation by not heeding a warning from Arcom.