Guest on the BFM Story show on Tuesday, in particular to react to the fact that Emmanuel Macron was booed at the Crif ceremony in tribute to the victims of October 7, in reference to the French president’s comments in favor of stopping deliveries to Israel with weapons that could be used in the war in Gaza, the rebellious MEP Rima Hassan was ultimately unable to respond.
At the microphone of Alain Marschall and Olivier Truchot, the LFI MEP first criticized the editorial line of BFMTV in its coverage of the war in Gaza. “ I simply want to denounce the fact that you were congratulated by Olivier Rafowicz, spokesperson for the Israeli army, a genocidal army, for your editorial line. It is very important for me to denounce this during this interview because it says a lot about your editorial line on this subject and I hope that you realize that sooner or later you will be held accountable. render as media »reacted the Franco-Palestinian MEP, quickly interrupted by presenters Alain Marschall and Olivier Truchot.
“This is unacceptable”
L’Insoumise referred in particular to the declarations of a spokesperson for the Israeli army, Olivier Rafowicz, who greeted Monday on BFMTV, during a special broadcast for October 7 from Tel Aviv, the ” excellent work [de BFMTV] in relation to the presentation of the conflict on both sides ». « This is unprecedented, there are no media that are congratulated by an army spokesperson », added Rima Hassan. “ You are calling into question the work of an editorial team, this is unacceptable », retorted Olivier Truchot.
« Listen stop, we’re going to stop. We congratulate you for that and we thank you. » The two presenters ended up cutting the interview short. Alain Marschall then commented on X: “ When we lie and threaten us, yes we cut “, while Olivier Truchot estimated that Rima Hassan’s “objective” was to get (his) little moment of buzz ».
Rima Hassan considers herself to have been “ censored in legitimate criticism » that she formulated.
The sequence also caused a reaction from the Society of Journalists of BFMTV (SDJ) which published a press release in which it “ deplores the questioning of the work of the editorial staff by the MEP in its coverage of the conflict “. She highlights the presence of “ numerous special envoys or correspondents in the region, in Lebanon, the West Bank, Israel and Iran » and mentions the broadcast over the weekend of a “ long format survey » produced with Palestinian journalists in Gaza, testifying to the damage inflicted by the Israeli army on the Palestinian enclave. An investigation “ moreover strongly contested on set by Olivier Rafowicz “. The SDJ finally regrets “ a sentence (…) taken out of context and used to take BFMTV and the work of its editorial team to task ».
