“France has made hundreds of Oradour-sur-Glane in Algeria. Tuesday, February 25, during a debate in the morning of RTL with Florence Portelli, LR vice-president of the Île-de-France region, Jean-Michel Aphatie created the controversy By evoking the “guilt” of France vis-à-vis Algeria. And while the host Thomas Sotto resumed him, the 66 -year -old journalist confirmed his words: “The Nazis behaved as we did in Algeria. »»
In the process, several voices of the right and the far right have erected against the words of the columnist, like Eric Ciotti or Jordan Bardella. Jean-Michel Aphatie, he was withdrawn by his management before announcing in early March not to return to the antenna, in disagreement with the sentence. Arch, it had announced instruct the sequence. And in a decision dated March 19 and published this Friday, the Sages announced that they have intervened with RTL.
A call “to particular vigilance when the debates on sensitive subjects”
“She expressed the stir of the excitement aroused by this analogy that many listeners estimated shocking in that it put on the same plane of events registering in radically different historical contexts,” says authority. The remarks made, moreover, could be perceived as likely to contribute to a form of relativization of Nazism. “Thus, the Arch calls for the station” to a particular vigilance during the dissemination of debates relating to subjects of such sensitivity, especially when they involve regular columnists “.
In our columns, early March, Jean-Michel Aphatie had confirmed not to come back to RTL and defended his position. “The misfortune that we have spread, it must be recognized at one point,” he explained about the colonization of Algeria. People have suffered from it all. And I, if I go back to touch my little cachet, I am unfaithful to these people and this suffering. After a latency period, RTL finally relaunched its Tuesday debates with the former deputy deputy Raquel Garrido.
