Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on Sunday that he was canceling his appearance planned for the week on TF1’s 8 p.m. channel, unhappy with the way in which Édouard Philippe, interviewed in the evening on the channel, was, according to him, able to “deliver a disgusting speech” on immigration “without being interrupted.”
“Anne-Claire Coudray echoes the racist slanders of Édouard Philippe. Who delivers his disgusting speech without being interrupted. Monday, I will not go to 8 p.m. on this channel,” wrote, without further details, the rebellious candidate on X, a few minutes after the mayor of Le Havre appeared on the television news of the first channel.
Neither LFI nor TF1 had announced the interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the channel where he formalized his candidacy for the presidency of the Republic in May. But a close friend of the rebellious leader had indicated to AFP that an interview with Jean-Luc Mélenchon was planned for the week, before the big LFI meeting at Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis) on Saturday.
The words of Édouard Philippe in question
After the riots of October 17, Édouard Philippe considered that “the over-representation of young people from immigrant backgrounds” in the violence surrounding the demonstrations was “patent” and had pointed out the “failure of integration” for “several decades” in France. “What conclusion did you draw from this observation?” Anne-Claire Coudray, the presenter of 20H, asked him on Sunday evening.
“In the images that we saw of the looting, there were in fact a certain number and a significant number of young French people, no doubt, who I consider to be French, with an immigrant background. Which reflects a subject that we must look at eye to eye,” declared the former Prime Minister.
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In the evening, Édouard Philippe responded to the rebellious leader on
A message to which Jean-Luc Mélenchon in turn reacted, accusing Édouard Philippe on the same social network of “racialist clientelism”. Since the racist attack in Trappes, the Insoumis have accused television channels of allowing far-right racist words to proliferate.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a regular slayer of “media officiality”, has long had conflicting relations with the press. He regularly castigates the media on his X account with 2.7 million subscribers, and sometimes directly the journalists whose articles he challenges.
