Comedian Guillaume Meurice, who had a preliminary interview with France Inter human resources on Thursday and is awaiting a possible sanction, remains “banned from the air until further notice,” he indicated on X. “For for reasons always beyond my control, I will not participate in the next show “Le Grand Dimanche Soir”,” he posted, thanking his supporters.
Guillaume Meurice was removed from the air on May 2, four days after he reiterated his controversial comments about Benjamin Netanyahu made at the end of October. He had compared the Israeli Prime Minister to a “kind of Nazi but without a foreskin”, which had earned him accusations of anti-Semitism and a complaint, recently dismissed.
A South union delegate accompanied him to this interview on Thursday. In a press release, the union specified that Guillaume Meurice was accused of having repeated his controversial remarks “knowing that Arcom (the audiovisual regulator) had sent Radio France a formal notice” the first times.
Thus, the comedian would have “lacked loyalty to his employer” and would have done it “in order to serve personal interests”, reports Sud which disputes this. “Radio France’s HR department has sufficient elements to waive a sanction which could go as far as early termination of the employment contract,” believes the union.
A strike against the comedian’s suspension prevented the broadcast of Charline Vanhoenacker’s show last Sunday, of which he is a part, and disrupted the station’s programs during the day.
