On the verge of retirement, the famous comedian Dieudonné has just signed an unexpected letter of apology, in which he literally asks for forgiveness from the Jewish community. Published in “Israel Magazine”, the famous letter would have been transmitted to the editorial staff by Francis Lalanne, and is intended to be a mea culpa of the humorist who, for decades, insulted and mocked the Jewish community… to the point of being condemned by the courts on several occasions, in particular for “incitement to hatred”.
This Tuesday, January 10, 2023, Cyril Hanouna who obtained a copy of this letter, read live in TPMP, some key passages: “I beg your pardon, it’s been several decades since I expressed myself in an official media and I didn’t think I would do it again one day, but that’s the way it is. […] I have been a comedian for 35 years. Much more than a job, this function was for me a real passion, a priesthood for which I devoted most of my life and my energy to the detriment often of my closest entourage and in particular of my seven children whom I hardly saw any grow.” advance Dieudonné.
“I take the opportunity given to me here to ask their forgiveness and tell them again how much I love them. of my artistic gesticulations. I am thinking in particular of my compatriots in the Jewish community with whom I humbly admit having let myself go into the game of one-upmanship” he declares before adding: “It’s true, sometimes I I have gone too far and show excesses, inappropriate provocations. For all these faults and excesses, I ask forgiveness. My ambition was to make everyone laugh, and the Jewish community is part of my world. I did not failed to make her laugh and I regret it.” he concludes, specifying that his state of health and his age contributed to his desire to leave the scene in peace and in reconciliation.
If Matthieu Delormeau found these excuses false, Valérie Bénaïm, let it be known that she accepted his forgiveness: “It is extremely complicated because we are people who have been bruised by what he has done for years. don’t forget “the false deportees” and all the pain he may have caused… nevertheless, and I am Jewish, I am always on the side of forgiveness. Because I think that we grow by accepting someone’s forgiveness ‘one who asks for it but I can understand that others are unable to take this step…”.
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