Being an investigative journalist is not without risk. It is probably not Ophélie Meunier who will say the opposite. The journalist to be placed under protection after the controversy linked to a number of “Forbidden Zone” dedicated to radical Islam. But the real controversy arose when the young law student, Lilia Bouziane, accused M6 and its teams of having lied to her about the subject of the show. Following this accusation, a flood of serious insults and death threats against the channel and Ophélie Meunier resulted.
A situation that Bernard de la Villardière has already experienced. The famous journalist and host of the program “Enquête Exclusive” was on the set of “C à Vous” this Thursday, February 3, 2022, to answer questions from Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and come back to the complicated period he had. also lived. It was in 2016 after an issue of his show. Bernard Cazeneuve, then Minister of the Interior, had encouraged the journalist to accept police protection. “I did not accept it only for me but also because I am married, I have children. I have a family. It is true that you are protected, but not your family., confided Bernard de la Villardière. This one going even further and admitting: “At the time, I remember how I traveled a lot, I took pictures of myself at the airport with my ticket in hand hiding the destination to say: ‘Hello guys, I’m not there’. Because I was always afraid that during my absence my home would be visited, even if it was protected”.
Several years later, the journalist has forgotten nothing of this period, quite the contrary. Especially since what worried him the most was, of course, the safety of his wife and children: “You are the one who is protected and not your family, so it is a major stressor. It is a hurricane in private life. It changes a lot of things“.
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