US EditionSaint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko Sues CNews Over Alleged Racist Remarks
Saint-Denis mayor Bally Bagayoko filed a lawsuit and called a rally after CNews aired remarks widely condemned as racist and discriminatory against him, a child of Malian immigrants.
- Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko announced a lawsuit against CNews on Saturday, March 28, following racist remarks aired during broadcasts on March 27 and 28.
- During CNews broadcasts on March 27 and 28, guests including psychologist Jean Doridot and essayist Michel Onfray made comments critics condemned as racist, with Onfray accusing Bagayoko of acting like a "dominant male" and being "very tribal."
- Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI group in the National Assembly, denounced the remarks as "unapologetic racism" for comparing Bagayoko to "a monkey and a tribal chief," while the French NGO MRAP filed a complaint with the public prosecutor.
- CNews responded that remarks were "taken out of context" and "deliberately distorted," while Bagayoko called for a "citizens' rally" against racism on Saturday, April 4, outside his city hall.
- As the first France Unbowed mayor of a city with more than 100,000 residents, Bagayoko's platform has become a target for far-right attacks; CNews faces ongoing scrutiny, having been fined previously by media regulator Arcom.
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Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced the examination of television footage directed at the mayor of Saint-Denis to determine whether they constitute a public insult or a call for discrimination
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bienpublic.comLaurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior, described the statements made on the CNews plateau on Friday against Bally Bagayoko, as "ignoble" and "absolutely unacceptable", saying that the government was studying them "in order to know whether it was a call to racial discrimination and a public insult".
New mayor LFI of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, has been the target of attacks deemed racist, notably on the channel CNews
Mayor LFI of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko had already received on Monday the support of the Ministers of Interior and Culture, after having been the target of "ignible attacks" on CNews' antenna.
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