Last week, Christine Kelly confided on Twitter that she had received a terrible threat of beheading. On the set of Do not touch My TV, on November 24, the 52-year-old journalist who presents every evening Facing the Info on CNews, came to talk about the hate messages, calls and mails she has been receiving for several months. Threats escalated in October, she said, when she started her political show. Cyril Hanouna read aloud the message Christine Kelly received on November 18: “The ax will inevitably fall on your well-made head. The media guillotine is on.”.
“I prepared myself psychologically to receive a grave of insults, at the very beginning of the show. I took community managers, etc. And I‘ve received threats in the mail, at home and at CNews editorial staff. I did not expect that. The most virulent I received at the time was in October 2019, said thatthey wanted to cut my throat… Suddenly I put that in the lot of criticism, I did not realize it “, said the one who shared the antenna alongside Eric Zemmour.
“But the more time passed, the more I thickened my shell and found it unfair. When I publicly announced that I was receiving threats, they stopped for almost 2 years.”. Not posing as a victim, Christine Kelly explained that she received a lot of laudatory letters but that a malicious person also found her phone number and called and sent messages several times. Fearing for his daughter Léa, Christine Kelly confided to be under protection.
“I have two babysitters all the time. What is abnormal is that in the name of what, as a journalist, we must receive death threats? As if the fact of not taking a position on the sets was a mistake “, said the ex-member of the CSA, explaining that she thought to stop presenting her program, the day she received a threat of beheading.
Christine Kelly filed a complaint for “telephone harassment” and “death threats” and spoke out for freedom of expression. For its part, the news channel showed its support for the presenter via a press release.