Omar Sy begins 2023 in the eye of the storm. The actor has been caught since yesterday, Sunday January 1, in a storm. A media gust provoked by the actor himself following his remarks made in The Parisian. In this interview, the star of the film Intouchables returned to the collective emotion born of the conflict in Eastern Europe and his vision of all this. “Ukraine was not a crazy revelation for me. As I have family elsewhere, in Africa, I know that there have always been children at war, broken families and parents who lose their children, kids who become orphans. It hasn’t stopped since World War II. I am surprised that people are so affected. Does that mean that when it’s in Africa you are less affected? I was traumatized as a child by the Iran-Iraq conflict, I grew up with these horrible images. It was war, the old fashioned way. Then there was the Gulf War, there are endless. Me, I feel threatened in the same way when it’s in Iran, or in Ukraine.“, did he declare.
A position that then outraged a lot of people on the Web. “Omar Sy, the guy lives in upscale neighborhoods in the USA and wants to give lessons. Often you should keep your mouth shut because you’re French too, right? Or return your passport to the country that made your success possible? », « When you live in the USA to pay less taxes, you are more discreet… », « Like Omar when it comes to violence in France. He loves the variable geometry of selective outrage,” could we read on Twitter.
The political class was also indignant at the comments made by Omar Sy. After the reaction of macronist Nathalie Loiseau, it was someone close to Marine Le Pen who spoke on BFM TV. Julien Odoul deplores “the selective outrage of a showbiz starlet“.”Mr. Omar Sy forgets that African wars reach the French“, added the deputy RN of Yonne.
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