Radio Nova defends “freedom of expression” after a grievance from Laurent Nuñez in opposition to comic Pierre-Emmanuel Barré | EUROtoday

Radio Nova defended Saturday November 15 the “freedom of expression” and warned that she “will not accept any threats” after the grievance by Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez in opposition to one among his comedians, Pierre-Emmanuel Barré, who had in contrast the police to the Islamic State group.

“Preserving the freedom of those who make people laugh means protecting the health of our democracy. Radio Nova is more than anything attached to this and will not accept any threats of any kind to its comedians and collaborators”declared the musical radio in a press launch despatched to theAgence France-Presse (AFP).

In the present “The Last” broadcast Sunday on Radio Nova then on Monday on the web, Pierre-Emmanuel Barré described the police and the gendarmerie as“structurally brutal, racist and disempowering institutions”.

The comic added: “Rapes, mutilations, murders and guys who film themselves doing all this while having fun, in fact the police and the gendarmerie, it’s Daesh with job security”.

A debate on satire

Laurent Nuñez had despatched a “complaint letter” to the Paris prosecutor’s workplace to denounce “these unspeakable remarks” Monday night, simply after the video broadcast of this program on the web, his entourage clarified Friday to theAFP.

On Friday, the police union Un1té denounced the “filthy words” from the comic “held while France honors the police officers who saved lives on November 13, 2015”.

“This column has no connection whatsoever with the attacks of November 13, 2015”specified Radio Nova. “Freedom of expression (…) supposes accepting satire, caricature, and criticism. It protects a fundamental right, because a free society has nothing to fear from laughter”added the radio.

The present “The Last” has been offered since September 2024 by Guillaume Meurice, who had been fired from France Inter in June of the identical 12 months for critical misconduct after evaluating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a “kind of a Nazi but without a foreskin”.

Radio Nova is a part of the Combat group, based by left-wing funding banker Matthieu Pigasse, which additionally consists of the journal “The Inrockuptibles” and the pageant “Rock in the Seine”.