New twist in the affair of Geoffroy Lejeune's (JDD) comments on CNews. Ordered to pay a fine of 50 euros, the news channel did not comment on the subject. But the main protagonist in the affair has just posted a video to denounce Arcom's way of doing things.
The Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) did not like Geoffroy Lejeune's little sentence. Reacting to a survey proposed in “L’Heure des Pros” on CNews, the editorialist and director of the Journal du Dimanche did not bear the sanction.
Questioned about the growing rise of anti-Semitism in France, the strong man of the JDD wanted to explain it by the rise of “ Arab-Muslim immigration " in France.
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What is the cause of anti-Semitism? According to him, " this survey shows one of the consequences of Arab Muslim immigration, like part of drug trafficking, like prison overcrowding, like the abaya, like all that... » A statement which had triggered some doubtful expressions on set.
On social networks, these totally divisive remarks therefore generate a clash of ideas and ways of thinking. We can read “ you are right ", like the " victimization "Or" You were sanctioned because it is false, and it is incitement to racial hatred ».
« What you don't know, is that there was a procedure with an independent rapporteur to whom I justified these comments. I supported them, with figures, with reports. And this justification was indisputable ».
Continuing: “ Arcom decided against the opinion of the rapporteur to sanction these comments. Especially since it was a strike of confounding banality. » Which according to him “ challenges freedom of expression ».
