Entangled in the bad buzz de Gims, who made controversial remarks a few days ago, Valérie Pécresse responded in the show We are live January 8, 2021 on France 2. Laurent Ruquier quickly challenged the presidential candidate on this thorny subject: “You actually called him Gims, we know, to tell him that he shouldn’t have been separatist?“
“Yes because the words that were made by Gims on the fact that we should not wish a happy new year … There … I told him that I considered it separatism and that was all I was fighting.“then replied the former adviser to Jacques Chirac. She then adds:”But Gims had never done that before and besides he told me he was sorry and that‘he didn’t want to hurt anyone“.”Will he support you during the campaign?“Laurent Ruquier then asks him with irony.”Listen I find you very interested in my support, you will ask him the question. ”Valérie Pécresse then replied, probably wishing to end this controversy as quickly as possible.
As a reminder, the rapper had criticized a few days ago his Muslim “brothers” who buy a tree to celebrate Christmas or who wish a Happy New Year to their friends. “Please leave me with the ‘happy new year, new year’ … leave me with that. You know I never answered that and you keep sending me ‘Happy New Years’. Muslims stop it! They are the ones who send most of the ‘Happy New Years’. Brothers, we don’t celebrate that (…) It’s not part of our convictions. “said the member of the Sexion d’Assaut group (previously of the Christian religion but who converted to Islam in 2004) before concluding:”When I see big trees at Mustafa’s, Bakari’s, I see that we are not concentrated at home there. “
On the hearings side, the show hosted by Laurent Ruquier and Léa Salamé brought together nearly 972,000 viewers, or 13.7% of the market share.