He had already received a “warning” from his employer. This time, the comedian and columnist of France Inter Guillaume Meurice was suspended by Radio France pending a possible sanction which could go as far as dismissal, after having reiterated on Sunday his controversial remarks made at the end of October about Benjamin Netanyahu, we learned from consistent sources on Thursday.
“There are things we can say. For example, if I say “Netanyahu [le Premier ministre israélien] is a kind of Nazi but without a foreskin”, that’s good. The prosecutor, he said “that’s good””, launched the columnist on France Inter on Sunday, in reference to the recent dismissal of a complaint against against him accusing him of anti-Semitism Guillaume Meurice himself announced on X his summons to a preliminary interview with a view to possible sanction, which was confirmed by Radio France.
Radio France did not want layoffs
October 29, on the show “The Great Sunday Evening” on France Inter, the comedian had already compared Benyamin Netanyahu to “a kind of Nazi, but without a foreskin”. This dig at the Israeli Prime Minister, around twenty days after the Hamas attack on October 7, earned the columnist a barrage of insults and death threats. But also several complaints for provocation of violence and anti-Semitic hatred and public insults of an anti-Semitic nature. All of these complaints were ultimately dismissed.
This fall, Radio France chose to issue a simple “warning” to Guillaume Meurice, ruling out the possibility of dismissal in the name of freedom of expression.