Contacted, the journalist “strongly disputes the motive” : « It is considered that I did not handle the incident properly. But as soon as I found out about the affair from Béatrice Pavon on Thursday evening, I called the consultants to ask them what was going on… I listened to the extract again and found it off. ground ! Even though I know they’ve been friends with them since they were 14, I asked them to call Bea to apologize. I also presented mine to him, as well as to Matthieu. On Thursday evening, Béatrice sent me a voicemail to say that she had had the two lunatics, that they had apologized and that if they did it on the air, it was ok. I considered it closed. I only spoke to my management about it on Saturday, I was wrong but I thought I had handled the matter. » Canal+ did not wish to comment.