Karine Le Marchand is once again provoking a lively debate in France with comments seeming to show that she is in favor of the death penalty. “For me, you take your life, we take your life,” said the presenter of “L’Amour est dans le pré”.
The 57-year-old French woman reacted on Sunday, facing the camera in her car, to two recent tragic news stories concerning children or young people. The death of Lyhanna, 11 years old, in Gers. And the fatal lynching of Louis, 17, by several young people in Narbonne.
Admitting that her position is “radical”, the presenter estimated that certain perpetrators of fatal violence are “psychologically irrecoverable”, reports RMC. After pleading to exclude people who are dangerous from society, she again decided: “I don’t have to pay my whole life for them to be in jail and I don’t give a damn about their living conditions.” The video posted on Instagram lasts more than 10 minutes. Karine Le Marchand has more than 800,000 subscribers.
Advocacy for the death penalty? The position taken by the presenter who described herself as angry has in any case generated a deluge of reactions, both support and rejection.
Series of rants
“Le Parisien” notes that Karine Le Marchand, in any case, is now accumulating rants which are controversial. In September, she defended Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted of criminal conspiracy, saying “she does not understand this justice”. On CNews, speaking about her move to Paris when she was young, she then said: “I saw the RER arrive, I saw all these black people, all these Muslims… well these Arabs. I was a little scared.”
Then, demanding more severe sanctions against the “cassos” after depredations and violence during PSG’s victory in the Champions League, she commented: “These little idiots, when they are happy, they break. When they are not happy, they break.”
“His supporters salute his courage. Its opponents denounce a growing proximity to the themes of the safest right,” comments the French daily.
The presenter who insists that she does not do politics did not respond to requests from “Parisien”. But, faced with the scale of the controversy, reports “Midi Libre”, she spoke out again, still via Instagram.
“Thank you for not taking my comments out of context, and for transforming my opinion as a citizen and mother into a debate. Go look for solutions rather than caricature me and use me as a standard. There is an urgent need to act.”
A “citizen and mother” in favor of the death penalty? Karine Le Marchand has not really clarified her position.
