A few days ago, Daniel Riolo found himself at the heart of a lively controversy by declaring that prisoners are “sub-citizens” during a debate on the program Estelle Midi. Enough to make the columnists of “Touche pas à mon poste” react, who had very divergent opinions on the rights of prisoners.
For his part, Gilles Verdez aroused indignation by declaring that even prisoners who have committed the worst crimes are “not monsters”. “But what’s happening to you, Gilles? You can’t, on a TV set in front of 2 million people, say that a terrorist is not a sub-citizen or even a sub-human! Excuse- you for all the victims, it’s not possible what you say!” then launched Matthieu Delormeau.
“I have a problem with the Koran”
Gilles Verdez then tried to make himself understood by declaring: “They were tried, they were convicted. […] I’m all for never getting out of jail, if that’s what you want to hear. […] There are no human beings, for me, who are monsters. Monster is to deny the state of being human”.
The day after these declarations, Cyril Hanouna had invited a man named Patrick Jardin, who lost his daughter in the attacks and who therefore wished to react to the words of Gilles Verdez. If the man expressed his pain and his disgust in the face of terrorism, he on the other hand made several amalgams by evoking the Muslims. “I have a problem with the Koran” he said after implying that the attacks against Muslims are not serious. Cyril Hanouna then did not hesitate to reframe his guest in the face of these shocking and inadmissible remarks: “I can’t let you talk like that, your pain blinds you” before concluding: “We understand your pain but it makes you say things that are counterproductive“.
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