Gauthier Le Bret, columnist of
Time for the pros on CNEWS, from
Don't touch my post on C8, and We walk on our heads. The latter reacted the next day by accusing Yann Barthès' columnist of having provoked Cyril Hanouna by referring to his religion using the term “
gaz“. “
In the tradition of 'Durafour crematorium' or 'Braun-Pivet went camping in Tel Haviv', surprising isn't it?“, tweeted Gauthier Le Bret on X. “
You are absolutely crazy. I am appalled by your stupidity“, retorted Jean-Michel Apathy, who once again received accusatory tweets from his rival. The expression “
to be on the verge of gas“means”
to be on the verge of suicide“. In a private message, Jean-Michel Apathy would have sent to Gauthier Le Bret: “
Your post is vile“. “
It's amazing how he turns the situation around“, replied Cyril Hanouna – at war with Jean-Michel Apathy for months – the next day on Europe 1. The journalist from
Monde Abel Mestre, then found “
interesting” that Cyril Hanouna tells the story behind Gauthier Le Bret's tweet: it was posted after a remark from Valérie Bénaïm when her comrades from Europe 1 showed her Jean-Michel Apathy's message. In the process, Cyril Hanouna promoted an article by Jean-Marc Morandini accusing Jean-Michel Apathy's tweet of being anti-Semitic, since Jean-Marc Morandini officiates on CNEWS.”
Lhe Bolloré sphere organizes a raid on social networks against (…) Jean-Michel Apathy“, wrote Abel Mestre. Gauthier Le Bret's tweet launched a movement against the TMC journalist on X.
The TMC journalist responds in a column on X
The latter therefore chose to write a long message: “Since my tweet is causing discussion, let's chat. When I wrote it, I didn't think about Cyril Hanouna as a citizen belonging to this or that cultural community. I thought of him as a vindictive host of a mediocre radio moment“. Jean-Michel Apathy continued by recounting the Europe 1 sequence to which he had reacted, finding it unusual that a listener wanted to leave France because of France Inter: “She gives her age, 25, and refuses to say where she lives, 'a town by the sea', she says, which causes laughter in the studio. She also hates France Inter and concludes her diatribe with: 'If that doesn't change, I'm leaving France.' I laughed. It's so grotesque. And it is in this context, still stupid, that