“The omnipotence of Hanouna who thinks he can insult and intimidate a person because he criticizes his boss is inadmissible”, launched Louis Boyard, during a press briefing at the Assembly, without specifying the reason for his complaint. . “Whether you are a deputy or not, a presenter does not have to insult someone live for having criticized the owner of his channel” C8 Vincent Bolloré, insisted the Insoumis deputy.
A few hours later, the star presenter also announced that he was suing the young deputy for “defamation” for comments he allegedly made during the broadcast on Thursday, November 10. Louis Boyard had accused the production of having sent him text messages encouraging him to say certain things and had launched to Hanouna: “you make your buzz on Zemmour, you make your buzz on racism, you danced when you you made your audience record on Lola”. “Know that we too will take action. And we are going to attack for what he may have said, defamation, and all the defamation he had against us, ”said Cyril Hanouna Monday evening on the air.
Thursday, on the set of the program Touche pas à mon poste, the deputy and former columnist of the program accused the “five richest people” in France of “impoverishing Africa”, citing in particular Vincent Bolloré , owner of the Canal+ group. “You are a piece of shit” retorted the host, after having called the deputy “moron”, “jester” and “lost”.
Hanouna regrets the insults
Sunday on Twitter, Cyril Hanouna announced that he regretted having insulted the 22-year-old deputy. “For the rest, I have no regrets and I will always defend my friends,” he added, referring to billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
Monday, during his press conference, Louis Boyard again pointed the finger at Vincent Bolloré, “the incarnation of Françafrique” according to him. “It is essential that the media maintain their independence from these billionaires,” said the LFI deputy.
Louis Boyard recalled that his group has tabled a bill to “put an end to concentration in the media”, by “limiting shareholders’ access to the capital of the major media through a right of approval”.
He also asked the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet “to open a commission of inquiry relating to the concentration of the media and more specifically on the financing of the Bolloré empire”. The LFI group has not mentioned at this stage the use of its “right to draw”, which would allow it to obtain a commission of inquiry by right to the Assembly.
The deputy finally proposed to Cyril Hanouna to “organize a debate” in his program “about the actions of Bolloré in Africa”. “I’m waiting for the answer,” challenged Louis Boyard.