A few days before the presidential elections, political debates have become commonplace in the program “Touche pas à mon poste” on C8. If Cyril Hanouna and his columnists analyze the candidates and their exits daily, all the personalities of the world of politics in the general sense are mentioned.
This Thursday March 31, 2022, the former Miss France Delphine Wespiser who is a columnist on the show, thus swung on her meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy before talking about Gérald Darmanin. The former beauty queen revealed that she was betrayed by the minister: “He told me that if he became a minister, he would make a law for animals. Well there, he is a minister and he did nothing” she protested. And if the young woman is angry with the current interior minister, she is not the only one because the politician has just found himself at the heart of a new controversy on social networks.
Gérald Darmanin pinned after a message intended for Muslims
This Saturday, April 2, 2022, the 39-year-old man took to Twitter to provide an update: “ORDINARY RACISM: Yesterday I wished a happy Ramadan to our Muslim compatriots. Since then, many comments, a tad racist, evoking that I did not wish a happy holiday to Christians or Jews. Obviously false. “ he wrote, taking care to add the link of a Facebook post listing the times he spoke for Christmas, Easter or even Hanukkah.
A situation that divides Internet users because we could, for example, read “Coming from a minister who has energetically participated in the criminalization, repression and/or dissolution of many Muslim figures and structures & who never ceases to feed the colonial management of Muslim culture, it is damn cheeky all the same.” in reaction to his first tweet.
But we can also see: “The difference is when you do it for Christians it’s with contempt. For your government Christianity is division, Islam is peace” under the second.
ORDINARY RACISM: Yesterday I wished a happy Ramadan to our Muslim compatriots. Since then, many comments, a bit racist, evoking that I did not wish a happy birthday to Christians or Jews. Obviously wrong: https://t.co/0jNlHe8SaP
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) April 2, 2022
I wish all Muslims in our country a happy Ramadan.
— Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) April 1, 2022
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