Animator Cyril Hanouna will continue La France Insoumise (LFI) in court, announced on Wednesday March 12 his lawyer at the Agency France-Presse (AFP), in response to a communication campaign featuring the host and who triggered accusations of anti-Semitism, challenged by the radical left movement. “We prepare legal actions”lawyer Stéphane Hasbanian told AFP, invoking the“Image damage” and saying to think about “Other actions related to anti -Semitism”.
The criminal visual had first been put online on the LFI X account, which has since removed it. He shows the face of Cyril Hanouna, of Tunisian Jewish origin, in black and white, frowning and aggressive air, above messages “Manifestations against the extreme right, its ideas … and its relays! »» And “Everywhere in France March 22”.
“It’s a photomontage”denounced Me Hasbanian. “We accentuated the features of Cyril Hanouna to make him look like what or who”he said.
With this poster, “LFI recycles anti -Jewish iconography”estimated the international league against racism and anti -Semitism on X. Lawyer Arno Klarsfeld also denounced on the social network a poster “Clearly anti -Semitic”. “The head of Cyril Hanouna is priced”for his part wrote the boss of the CMI France media group, Denis Olivennes, seeing them “Fascist methods”. This “Image borrows all the codes of anti -Semitic caricatures”abounded the ex-socialist ex-somenant David Assouline.
Reactions and controversies around the case
Some, like Jules Torres on X, columnist for CNews and Europe 1 and journalist of Sunday newspaper (JDD)-Three media in the lap of the conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré-drawn a parallel with anti-Semitic posters from the 1930s and 1940s. This is notably what the Badenist and writer Joann Sfar shows on his Facebook accountby publishing a post in which he parallels the poster created by LFI, and images, writes Joann Sfar, displayed “On the walls of Paris under Pétain”.
Requested by AFP, LFI denounced “Nausea accusations” that it imputes ” basically “ to “Far -right activists relayed by CNews, Europe 1 and the JDD »». LFI also said that he had replaced the visual for “Put an end”. The movement also stresses that its campaign to call to demonstrate on March 22 includes “Visuals with several media personalities”like the presenter of CNEWS Pascal Praud, “Which contribute to the relay of extreme right ideas”.
“It is to put targets in the back of these journalists, these politicians or these personalities”reacted the Keeper of the Seals, Gérald Darmanin, on CNews. “I hope these demonstrations can be prohibited by the prefects”he added.