“Muslims, they do not care about the Republic, they do not even know what the word means,” said the accused question in December 2022.
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The Union of Mosques de France (UMF) filed a complaint on Friday January 6 against the columnist for CNEWS Jean-Claude Dassier on Friday, January 6 for “public insult”, learned the France-Presse (AFP) agency to his lawyer. This complaint for “public insult” and “provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence”, consulted by AFP, was filed with the constitution of civil party on Friday at the Paris court, announced M E
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On December 27, 2022, Jean-Claude Dassier, former leader of the LCI channel and the football club of Olympique de Marseille, had affirmed, during a debate on juvenile delinquency, that the “Muslims, they Do not care about the Republic, they don’t even know what the word means. ” Declarations sentenced three days later by the president of the UMF, Mohammed Moussaoui. The latter, who co-workers interim the French council of Muslim worship (CFCM, former interlocutor of the State with representatives of Muslim worship), had described them as “shocking and defamatory”.
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Two days after the remarks made by Jean-Claude Dassier, the presenter of CNews Barbara Klein, at the helm of the program Invite, had dissociated himself from her columnist in the name of the chain and his editorial staff.
The complaint also files on another declaration by Mr. Dassier, quoted to AFP by the lawyer of the UMF: “What do you do with millions of Muslims who have French papers and who live [for] some for decades (…) with a completely different culture than ours under the French flag? What are we doing? “
Wednesday, the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Communication Regulatory Authority (Arcom, ex-CSA) had seized an independent rapporteur of the State Council to study the possibility of a sanction after these words of Mr. Dassier And those of another CNews speaker, Laurent Ozon. The latter had “praised the merits of” remigration “,” said the Arch to AFP. This procedure opens the way to a possible sanction of the chain, to which the administrative authority has already inflicted a fine of 200,000 euros in 2021 for remarks made by Eric Zemmour.
Arcom is regularly seized for slippages noted on CNews and C8, two channels of the Canal+group, a subsidiary of Vivendi, controlled by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. The regulator recently opened the way to a sanction procedure after insults by Cyril Hanouna to a deputy on the C8 channel, already sentenced to a fine of 3 million euros in 2017 for a hoax deemed homophobic of the animator.