“I received between 10 and 15 insults per minute”. In a sketch broadcast on Saturday evening and recorded Thursday at the European theater, the humorist Merwane Benlazar returns to the wave of racism he is the victim.
Since his visit to the program “C à vous” broadcast on Friday January 31 on France 5 on Friday 31 in which he intervened for the first time as a columnist, the young man is at the heart of a controversy of a racist nature.
A beard, a sweater and a hat
Accused of Islamism by the extreme right, the chronicler for an evening was deprived of an antenna. Merwane Benlazar “will no longer be on the screen,” said Culture Rachida Dati in the Senate on Wednesday. “I knew that I was going to be fired one day, by an Arab it is boring, but I knew that I was going to be fired,” comments the main interested in his last video.
In his momentum, he recounts his after chronicle: “It created a wave of hatred. From Friday to Monday morning, I only had insults ”. The comedian was notably attacked for former tweets out of context and his dress. A brown sweater and a Zara hat that panicked racists. “Do you know why I put a hat?” I have a baldness, ”he replied with self-mockery. His beard was also very commented on social networks. Some Internet users who called her as “Islamist”.
“I have the right to defend myself”
In conclusion of this twelve -minute video, Merwane Benlazar justifies his speaking with a little more seriousness. “Why is it unfair this?” I have the right to defend myself (…) but every day there are hundreds of Arabs who are returned because they have not put the right sweater, which are not taken to something because ‘They did not put the right hat, and they will never defend themselves and they will not even know why they are fired ”.
The Chronicle of Merwane Benlazar on “C to you” was not reprehensible, as Rachida Dati pointed out. What prompted the public service to react, on the other hand, were tweets posted by the artist several years ago – and which are no longer available, his account having been locked. “Scandalous remarks,” said the Minister of Culture. “France Télévisions has drawn the consequences, it will no longer be on the screen,” she added. Rachida Dati, however, denounced “the significant noise of drifts and slippages”. “The appearance, the physique, the dress, must not disqualify without any foundation,” she said.
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