“I am very shocked. Me, Mr. Vincent, it’s not the words that bother me, it’s your adoration for Dieudonné. On the channel of Alain Soral, a far-right essayist, you nevertheless said that Dieudonné was your idol: ‘I have unconditional admiration for him, all the respect in the world.’ Dieudonné is an anti-Semite condemned as such… How can you say that?. Gilles Verdez might not have thought that his statement against Francky Vincent would have brought him so much hatred in the space of a few hours.
Indeed, this Tuesday, December 6, the interpreter of Alice it slips was invited on the set of TPMP to defend himself after the criticisms against him after having been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres medal. The opportunity for Fatou’s companion to come back to the artist’s past and point out his closeness to Dieudonné. “The French Republic cannot condone that. If you condone anti-Semitism, it means that you are anti-Semitic”, had even dropped the columnist. The day after this declaration, Gilles Verdez received a torrent of hatred on the Web.
Gilles Verdez threatened very violently
In particular because of a diverted photo in which Internet users accused the columnist of Cyril Hanouna of making a quenelle, when he had tackled Dieudonné the day before. “There is this photo that has been circulating as if I was making a quenelle. Whereas it is a sequence from He thinks what does your brother think about it”, he defended himself on set this Wednesday, December 7. After revealing the sequence in question to prove that it was indeed not a quenelle, Gilles Verdez spoke of the odious messages he received throughout the day.
“Well, I’ve had things… ‘we’ll profane your corpse’, ‘I hope your loved ones will suffer the consequences of what you say’, ‘we’ll find you’, ‘don’t come to the West Indies otherwise you’re death!’…I’ll give you a few that are obnoxious but still acceptable”he dropped live when the host wanted to know the nature of the messages.
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