One of the comedians from “Grand Dimanche Soir”, Djamil Le Shlag, repeated the comments at the origin of this layoff and announced live that he was slamming the door of the station.
Guillaume Meurice was suspended Thursday pending a possible sanction which could go as far as dismissal, four days after having reiterated his controversial comments about Benjamin Netanyahu made at the end of October, comparing the Israeli leader to a “kind of Nazi but without a foreskin “.
A criminal complaint was filed against him following these comments, accusing him of anti-Semitism, but it was dismissed. Summoned on May 16, he received the support of the France Inter editorial staff and many left-wing leaders after this dismissal.
Guillaume Meurice, or the story of the guy who made a joke and ended up at the PJ
Meurice, whose usual place in the studio was symbolically left empty, “does not have the right to be with us this evening, Inter sent him to boarding school to put him back on the right path”, quipped Charline Vanhoenacker at the start of his show.
“Some of you are wondering why we are not on strike. We are specialists in strikes, we have done them all for ten years and we know the rules: five days’ notice to Radio France. You wouldn’t want What’s more, we are becoming outlaws?”, she added. “As the far right has decided to silence us this evening, we are not going to give them this pleasure,” continued the host, reserving several barbs for the public group.
“I reassure our managers at Radio France, this column has been reread by a lawyer because, as I feel that HR (human resources, editor’s note) is very busy firing colleagues, I am saving them unnecessary meetings.” “By spending more time in HR and the PJ (judicial police) than writing jokes, we will end up proving people right who say that public money is poorly spent,” she said. unrolled.
“When it comes to freedom of expression, even if we have to go on the field on one leg and blindfolded, we will play it this match,” she promised. “Solidarity still exists, and it’s the best defense.”
Several columnists expressed their support for Guillaume Meurice, until the brilliance of Djamil Le Schlag, who repeated the comments about Netanyahu, to the applause of the public, and announced that he was leaving France Inter.
“Personally, I don’t see what’s shocking about comparing Netanyahu to a sort of Nazi without a foreskin,” he said. “I come back to the management of France Inter. Who do you think you are scaring with your threats of dismissal? Personally, I am an Arab in France, I have always been threatened with being fired. (…) J ‘draws conclusions by retiring from public service after the show, it was my last column (…) In this station, I no longer feel in my +safe space+.
