Influencer Jérôme Jarre explains himself after the controversy surrounding his “Love Army”

“I did some big shit in communications,” admits Jérôme Jarre who, in 2017, raised nearly four million euros to support the Rohingya – a Muslim minority persecuted in Burma – and whose probity is called into question by the documentary #Love Army, where are you Jérôme?broadcast by Prime Video since March 20, 2024.

Guest by Mouloud Achour on the set of Clickon Canal+, the influencer delivered his version of the facts and above all answered the question that is burning on everyone’s lips: “But where did all this money go, Jérôme? “.

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He wants to clarify things from the outset by affirming that the entire amount collected “went to NGOs”, reports the Ozap site, specifying that only forty minutes of the interview having been broadcast in Clickthe rest can be viewed on the platform MyCanal.

A first mission “fulfilled”

After having mentioned the creation of the #LoveArmy, in whose ranks we found YouTubers such as Mister V, Natoo or Seb la Frite and celebrities like Omar Sy and Dj Snake, Jérôme Jarre recalls the success of a first mission in Somalia…

But when Mouloud Achour asks him about the mission in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, the young man explains that things were less simple because “after two weeks, I understood that there were laws and that we were not going to be able to give cash to the Rohingya.”

“Not very cool” reactions

Further, the influencer confides that since the release of the documentary about him, he has received “a lot of not very cool things on social networks”; for him, it is due to the fact that “the teasing of this documentary suggests that we do not know where the money is”, while he affirms that it went to NGOs.

Our “Rohingya” file

Finally, Jérôme Jarre admitted having given false figures to a journalist from France 2 came to report in Bangladesh, underlines Ozap. Already the doubt raised by the Prime Video documentary does not work in its favor, this admission could convince its detractors that everything is not white and white in this “affair”…

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