On a daily basis, the CSA, the Superior Audiovisual Council is the French audiovisual regulatory authority, ensures the exercise of the freedom of audiovisual communication in France. Considered as the “police” of television, this entity does not hesitate to sanction channels which broadcast inappropriate content after careful study of the various images and texts.
Today, it is the channel France 2 is in the collimator of the CSA after the diffusion of a sequence diffused in the series “Plus belle la vie”. A scene broadcast on April 28 shows Commander Nebout, played by Jéröme Bertin, the victim of a sexual assault in his service. These violent images broadcast at prime time had literally shocked fans of the program and some had undertaken to seize the CSA.
“Plus Belle la Vie has changed a lot my god. Children are watching. It shocked me what just happened it’s shameful you went too far “,” Heuuu it was not a bit too much the scene” , or “A rape scene in a family program is borderline. We have to talk about it, yes, but not by showing so many things we had largely understood where he was coming from Could read on Twitter.
The CSA issued a decision in which it considers that with regard to the violence of the scenes and images of rape, a signage “not recommended for children under 12” should have been displayed during the broadcast of the episode. The Superior Audiovisual Council indicates having asked France Televisions “to take this into account in the event of a rebroadcast of this program”, before assuring the complainants “of its constant concern to ensure respect for the protection of young audiences in the audiovisual media “.
At the microphone of radio Europe 1, the production of the series, Geraldine Gendre had expressed his desire to “break the taboo” with regard to male sexual violence. The actor Jérôme Bertin had also mentioned behind the scenes of the shooting of the scene: “It’s so difficult to play things like that, because we get naked. It really shook me, I was not in my normal state during the shooting, I was very involved and one of the consequences was that I had trouble sleeping “.
Eleanor de la Fontaine