Solidarity with the journalist, who has received death threats, was slow to express himself, regrets the producer of the documentary, Tony Comiti.
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“Faced with the danger of radical Islam, the responses of the state”. By disseminating this documentary dedicated to the fundamentalism shot in Roubaix (North), Marseille and Bobigny, Sunday, January 23rd in “Forbidden Zone”, M6 knew that she was holding a highly flammable subject. To the point that the chain had decided to moderate promotion, so as not to stole the passions. This precaution will not suffice: as well as revealed Nicolas de Tavernost In front of the senators , Friday, January 28, the presenter Ophélie Meunier, threatened, had to be placed under police protection. Ditto for one of the protagonists of the report, the lawyer from Roubaix Amine Elbahi, seriously threatened too. “The journalists and the people who testified in this report were supported, their complaints are educated, said the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, Monday, January 29th. I have given extremely important means so that the authors of these threats are found. “
This film, partly realized in discreet camera, shows in particular a Roubaian business where one sells without face, on the ground that the Koran prohibits the figurative representations. It also reveals that a homework assistance association, subsidized by the town hall, will actually house Koranic teachings. From the first trailers, M6 had been the target of a boycott call. And, in the aftermath of its dissemination, the report was the subject of hateful comments and political recovery, starting with Eric Zemmour who was striving, in a gallery in Figarovox, to have recognized “the US and Customs of totalitarian Afghanistan “.
Hear the reconquest candidate! “Recommend to see our movie, it does not make us happy,” recognizes Michaëlle Gagnet, the director. Originally, his investigation was to be broadcast for the first anniversary of Samuel Paty’s assassination, in October 2021. But while “everyone would have preferred to be broadcast before the start of the election campaign”, so to limit the risks of instrumentalisation, the journalist was unable to deliver his documentary on December 20th.
“Information and freedom of the press must remain a priority”
If it prove to a surprise by the reactions he has caused (emissions on C8, debates on BFM-TV or CNEWS, etc.), “It is important that we can denounce a dangerous ideology without being Taxed Islamophobia “, is she pleading. Now, the most eager confreres to be offended will have been “the media from right, or even far right”, “she regrets. “Our colleagues, the associations of journalists, the unions, do not support us much, abounds his producer, Tony Comiti. However, what happens to us all.” After that of Cnews, the companies of the M6 and RTL journalists. Have expressed their solidarity Monday morning: “Information and freedom of the press must remain a priority if we want to preserve our democracy”, reminded colleagues from Ophélie Meunier.
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