The LFI mayor of Saint-Denis pronounces a grievance towards CNews after feedback deemed racist | EUROtoday

The LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, introduced on Saturday March 28 that he meant to file a grievance after controversial feedback on CNews regarding him, denounced as racist by a number of left-wing leaders.

“There will be a complaint filed (…) I will very soon take the initiative of a large gathering and I would like everyone to be there (…) against racism and against fascism”, added Bally Bagayoko, elected within the first spherical on March 15 in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), second metropolis in Île-de-France after Paris

Several parliamentarians, together with the pinnacle of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot, introduced on Saturday that they had been contacting Arcom for feedback denounced as racist made on Cnews by a speaker questioned in regards to the new LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko.

Contacted by AFP, the channel’s administration spoke of an “unfounded controversy”.

Friday night, psychologist Jean Doridot was on set throughout a debate on Mr. Bagayoko’s first days in workplace in Saint-Denis, a metropolis that the channel describes because the “laboratory” of La France insoumise.

Is this mayor “trying to push the limits?”, we ask him.

“Surely there is a little of that. Now, it is important to remember that homo sapiens, we are social mammals and of the great ape family. And therefore, in any community, in any tribe – our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in tribes – there is a leader whose mission is to establish his authority”, declared Jean Doridot.

“And what is revealed with the election of Mr. Bally Bagayoko in Saint-Denis is that it still reminds us that a mayor in a municipality has a lot of power,” he continued.

“Now, (…) no one can decide like that, the act of the prince, in the era of kings, I dismiss such and such mayor,” he added, whereas the query of sanctions was raised on the stage towards Mr. Bagayoko. “Our system is entirely capable of holding people who are not friends of the traditional Republic to account.”

“New report” to Arcom

Mathilde Panot denounced on X “crass and uninhibited” racism in the direction of this mayor born in Hauts-de-Seine to Malian dad and mom. “On CNEWS, the mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko is compared to a monkey and a ‘tribal chief’,” she was indignant.

“Yet another confirmation that this channel is a racist cesspool,” added communist senator Ian Brossat, additionally asserting a “new report” to Arcom, the audiovisual and digital regulator.

“Garbage news still on repeat in its racism against the new mayors and precisely against Bally Bagayoko,” environmentalist deputy Léa Balage El Mariky additionally wrote on X. “Report to ARCOM immediately. Support Mr. Mayor in the face of this crass racism.”

Speaking to AFP, the administration of CNews estimated that Jean Doridot’s feedback had been “deliberately distorted on social networks, fueling an unfounded controversy”.

Somewhat later within the present, the ground was given again to this psychologist to make clear his feedback.

Jean Doridot then rejected any racist intention. “We all have two arms, two legs, 23 pairs of chromosomes per cell. And that’s what I wanted to say. I wanted to universalize my point. Maybe (that) it wasn’t clear enough,” he declared. “I am convinced that we are all similar and we all share a bond of universal kinship,” he added.

Bally Bagayoko discovered himself on the coronary heart of an argument in latest days after believing that civil servants not in settlement with the town’s political undertaking “will leave”.

With AFP