A poster of LFI concentrating on Cyril Hanouna withdrawn after prices of anti -Semitism | EUROtoday

Animator Cyril Hanouna will proceed La France Insoumise (LFI) in court docket, introduced on Wednesday March 12 his lawyer on the Agency France-Presse (AFP), in response to a communication marketing campaign that includes the host and who triggered accusations of anti-Semitism, challenged by the unconventional left motion. “We prepare legal actions”lawyer Stéphane Hasbanian advised AFP, invoking the“Image damage” and saying to consider “Other actions related to anti -Semitism”.

The prison visible had first been put on-line on the LFI X account, which has since eliminated it. He exhibits the face of Cyril Hanouna, of Tunisian Jewish origin, in black and white, frowning and aggressive air, above messages “Manifestations against the extreme right, its ideas … and its relays! »» And “Everywhere in France March 22”.

“It’s a photomontage”denounced M^e Hasbanian. “We accentuated the options of Cyril Hanouna to make him seem like what or who”he said.

With this poster, “LFI recycles anti -Jewish iconography”estimated the international league against racism and anti -Semitism on X. Lawyer Arno Klarsfeld also denounced on the social network a poster “Clearly anti -Semitic”. “The head of Cyril Hanouna is priced”for his part wrote the boss of the CMI France media group, Denis Olivennes, seeing them “Fascist strategies”. This “Image borrows all of the codes of anti -Semitic caricatures”abounded the ex-socialist ex-somenant David Assouline.

Reactions and controversies around the case

Some, like Jules Torres on X, columnist for CNews and Europe 1 and journalist of Sunday newspaper (JDD)-Three media in the lap of the conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré-drawn a parallel with anti-Semitic posters from the 1930s and 1940s. This is in particular what the Badenist and writer Joann Sfar shows on his Facebook account, by publishing a post in which he puts in parallel the poster created by LFI, and images, writes Joann Sfar, displayed “On the partitions of Paris underneath Pétain”.

Requested by AFP, LFI denounced “Nausea accusations” that it imputes ” mainly “ to “Far -right activists relayed by CNews, Europe 1 and the JDD »». LFI additionally stated that he had changed the visible for “Put an end”. The motion additionally stresses that its marketing campaign to name to exhibit on March 22 contains “Visuals with several media personalities”just like the presenter of CNEWS Pascal Praud, “Which contribute to the relay of extreme right ideas”.

“It is to put targets in the back of these journalists, these politicians or these personalities”reacted the Keeper of the Seals, Gérald Darmanin, on CNews. “I hope these demonstrations can be prohibited by the prefects”he added.