In solidarity with Guillaume Meurice, the “Charline gang” challenges the presidency of Radio France

In “The Great Sunday Evening”, the members of the team united to defend freedom of expression after the dismissal of their colleague. Columnist Djamil Le Schlag resigned directly.

Lhe battle of humor has begun at Radio France, and the team of Great Sunday evening proudly fought last night, in solidarity with his comrade Guillaume Meurice. The latter was suspended Thursday by the presidency of Radio France, which summoned him on May 16. The previous week, he had welcomed the complaint against him for having described the Israeli Prime Minister as“you kind of Nazi, but without a foreskin” had been dismissed.

“You are missing only one person, and that is Guillaume Meurice, who does not have the right to be with us this evening,” deplored Charline Vanhoenacker in the preamble to a program in which the name (and the joke) of the columnist was in all the sketches and all the columns. “I have a heartfelt thought for the prosecutor who closed the complaint,” insisted the show’s mistress of ceremonies, who also explained the choice to go on air despite this layoff. “We are lucky to have a microphone, we keep it, because it is important to defend freedom of expulsion… Uh, of expression! “, she said. Friday, in a joint forum, the station’s producers and journalists expressed concern about the “editorial shift” detected in this suspension, but also the elimination of certain programs for the start of the school year, as well as a loss of a third of the station’s budget. Charline Vanhoenacker’s show.

“I recognize that we have gone too far. By wanting to put jokes in columns, we went beyond the limits. But I don’t know in which club they deprive you of your main attacker three days before the match, continued the host. When it comes to freedom of expression, even if we have to go on the field on one leg and blindfolded, we’re going to play it this match, right? So this evening, we’re not promising to score goals, but we’re keen to show that solidarity still exists, and it’s the best defense. » While in the room, many reviewers from the show came to support, the casting of the week did not fail to highlight the glaring absence of Guillaume Meurice. Aymeric Lompret spoke in place of his colleague, including his usual sidewalk microphone – going so far as to explain the joke about the “Nazi without a foreskin” to the management of Radio France.

I said no, it’s time to leave.

Djamil Le Schlag

In a twist, comedian Djamil Le Schlag resigned live, also addressing the higher echelons. “Who do you think you’re scaring with your threats of dismissal? Personally, I am an Arab in France, I have always been threatened with being fired, and that since my birth, I have strong skin, he said. I made my decision an hour ago, I passed in front of the office of the director of Radio France and I saw a poster Macron 2027, I said no, it’s time to leave,” he explained, calling it “Jospinade” her decision “to withdraw from public service”. Coup de grace, Giedré’s song, as usual sung to a very light tune, closed the show with these words: “It happens that legal decisions are not respected by the public service, sometimes when we defend human rights it ends up in the industrial tribunal. »

Charline Vanhoenacker clarified twice that the decision to dismiss the comedian came from Sibyle Veil, president of the Round House, and not from Adèle Van Reeth, director of France Inter. The standoff thus begins with the presidency, which today seems isolated from part of its teams.