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By questioning the NFP candidate for Matignon, solely on the security issue, the BFM journalist is ignoring a certain number of subjects: a way of prioritizing information?
“But first I would like us to listen to Harmonie Comyn together…” Among all the current events, Apolline de Malherbe, when she received Lucie Castets on BFM on Thursday, chose to begin the interview with the speech of the widow of the policeman killed in Mougins a few days earlier by a reckless driver who refused to obey a traffic stop. This is certainly the event of the day. How can we doubt it, since BFM, the day before, chose to broadcast this speech live, in which the widow “thank our France for having killed my tender husband by its laxity and its excess of tolerance”, ensures that «1981 [l’abolition de la peine de mort, ndlr] should never have existed” and deplores the fact that the reckless driver benefits in prison from “three hot meals a day.”
This was followed by a hail of thirteen questions to the left-wing candidate for Matignon, for a total duration of eight and a half minutes (out of an interview of 21 minutes and 33 seconds in total). Several questions on the tragedy itself, including an exhaustive list of the hit-and-run driver’s ten previous convictions for mainly road traffic offences, but with the inevitable bonuses. First, four questions on the slogan «the police stopped». This slogan was tweeted by Mélenchon in 2022, during the murder of a motorist by a police officer, after a refusal to comply in Paris. It was also chanted in 2023 in a demonstration in the presence of two LFI deputies. It is therefore not a hot topic, even
