Eric Zemmour takes too much space on CNews according to the ethics committee of the Canal + group

CNews' program

which features a

daily chronicle

Eric Zemmour, should change form, after the ethics committee of the Canal + group pointed out "the lack of intellectual honesty" and the lack of plurality.

The internal control body was approached in early October by the group's presidency to look into the program broadcast every evening at 7 p.m. on CNews.

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The controversy too much?

The show is hosted by Christine Kelly, but it is above all a daily platform for Eric Zemmour, invited to speak on all current topics.

It is in

 that the polemicist notably made remarks on September 29 assimilating unaccompanied foreign minors to "thieves", "murderers" and "rapists" and that "all send home ".

Several complaints had been filed, the CSA seized, and the group's ethics committee convened.

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Comments "contrary to the ethics of the group"

According to

, the ethics committee of the Canal + group, after several hearings, gave its opinion and raised the tone.

“

cannot continue to be disseminated in its current form,” explains the controlling body.

She denounces the "lack of honesty" of Eric Zemmour and his remarks "contrary to the ethical charter of the group".

"The program must be more open to the diversity of opinions, while respecting their contradictory expression," recalls the committee.

"What his current organization around a star columnist does not allow."

It is this committee which had already pushed CNews to abandon the direct in order to be able to record, (and thus possibly to cut passages of it) 

in the event of overflow of the polemicist.

A precaution that had served no purpose on September 29.

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"No one would dream of having Dieudonné debate every day"

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also contacted the Society of Editors of the channel, which rather agrees with the analysis of the ethics committee, even if it recommends returning to the original format of

 : a face-to-face face between Eric Zemmour and another strong polemicist.

The + Libre union is for its part more reserved: "There is no problem for Eric Zemmour to speak on the air, as a guest among others," explains the organization.

"But not that a program revolves around him, even with an opponent for an hour, while he has been condemned several times for inciting hatred. No one would dream of having Dieudonné debated every day".

As for the management of the Canal + group, it simply indicated that it had started a reflection to modify

.