In January 2023, the TPMP program welcomed veiled columnists. While some welcomed Cyril Hanouna’s initiative, other viewers cried out in indignation. Even on the set, it was hard! We remember in particular very tense debates with the politician Jean Messiha or even exchanges in the form of a pass of arms between the far-right activist Damien Rieu, facing the lawyer and new columnist Lilia Bouziane. In question, the veil of the young woman, who made her opponent say that “There are plenty of symptoms that show an Islamization of the country”, on January 12. The latter had reminded him that “It is not illegal to wear a veil”. The latter, a former Reconquest candidate then replied: “I’m not saying it’s illegal, I’m saying it’s a symptom of the Islamization of my country”. Not dismantled, the lawyer had then retorted to him: “You are a thrower of hatred, that’s all you are”. Another columnist, Amel, had also been talked about at the start of the year for having left the set during Jean-Marie Bigard’s “below the belt” jokes. Not appreciating at all the schoolboy humor of the artist, the mother of the family had preferred to leave the show definitively. On Twitter, his reaction had been badly perceived: “So columnist Amel wants to get off the set so as not to hear a joke from Bigard?!” “Boycott Amel, freedom of expression, long live Bigard”, etc.
Amèle and Lilia Bouziane veiled in #TPMP January 9 and 12, 2023: The@Arcom_en notes “that no legal or conventional provision prohibits the wearing of religious symbols on the air”, the Authority has thus not “noted the publisher’s failure to fulfill its obligations” pic.twitter.com/QCCIAQC3NV
— Nicolas Mlb (@NMalaboeuf) June 25, 2023
Television sequences that we remember and which had caused a lot of ink to flow… like all those for which Arcom was requested such as the episode of the very tense passage of Louis Boyard who said he was insulted by Cyril Hanouna or even the treatment of the Lola case calling for expeditious justice. Regular calls to order and sanctions… But this Sunday, June 25, 2023, the French Public Authority for the Regulation of Audiovisual and Digital Communication decided to respond to the “veil controversy” in TPMP in a very clear way by declaring noting “that no legal or conventional provision prohibits the wearing of religious symbols on the air” thus not having “reported any breach by the publisher of its obligations”.
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