This Tuesday, July 4, 2023, Anne-Sophie Lapix animated a new edition of the newspaper of “20 hours“on France 2. During the program, the journalist made a point of presenting her “apologies” on behalf of the channel’s editorial staff for broadcasting an erroneous interpretation of the last exchange between the police and Nahel, 17 years old, shot dead by the police on Tuesday, June 27, in Nanterre. This mistake was later regretted and corrected, reports Puremedia.
“Yesterday we were discussing the investigation into Nahel’s death. For this we used the work of the independent NGO Index, which tried to make the sound of the video more audible but without reaching a conclusion. titles that we used gave a version of the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police, editor’s note). We apologize for this error to the NGO and to all our viewers”, she explained on air.
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The day before, Anne-Sophie Lapix had presented a subject devoted to the case. The journalist had notably reported the words of the passenger present alongside Nahel at the time of the tragedy. “He had fled at the time of the tragedy. He claims today that the driver started without wanting to after having received blows from the rifle butt”,she said before launching the audio in question. A sound that highlighted “another interpretation of the police officers”. “Cut ! Cut !'”, sum these. “Implied ‘stop the engine’, explains the voiceover before adding: “Nahel would have answered him (‘Get away!’) then the agents would have issued a summons”.
Without further ado, the independent NGO Index therefore took to his social networks to restore the truth: “It is hard to believe what we have just seen on the ’20 Hours’ newscast of France 2. You broadcast our audio analysis of the moments preceding Nahel’s death, and you subtitle it with the transcription that is proposed ( would) the IGPN??!”. “You make him say the opposite of our analysis”.
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