Paris (AFP)

LCI recognized Thursday an "awkward" presentation of Me Yassine Bouzrou, the lawyer of Piotr Pavlenski, after the diffusion the day before of an infographic on his course where he was seen wearing a donkey's cap, which caused the 'ire of lawyers.

"We want to come back to a sequence presented yesterday which caused a lot of reaction. It was a question of retracing the course of Me Yassine Bouzrou, the lawyer of Piotr Pavlenski. The form, the illustrations, were awkward and could seem disrespectful ", said journalist Valentine Desjeunes at the start of the 2 p.m. show on LCI.

"If we injured Me Bouzrou, we are sorry. But there was no intention of harming. On the contrary, it was a question of underlining the exceptional course of Me Bouzrou. The chronicle simply wished to focus on retrace the singular journey of a lawyer in the spotlight at the moment, "she continued.

"The form was not the right one, we wanted to tell you today," she repeated.

Requested by AFP, Me Bouzrou, a regular in media files, denounced an infamous "dismal" computer graphics and announced that he was going to seize the CSA.

The CSA for its part confirmed to AFP that it had been seized by Me Bouzrou.

The lawyer notably defended Tariq Ramadan, at the start of the case where the Swiss Islamologist is under investigation for rapes. He is also the lawyer for the family of Adama Traoré, a young man who died in 2016 in Val-d'Oise after a chase with the police or civil parties in the investigation into the Rio-Paris flight crash.

The distribution of this infographic, where we saw the face of Me Yassine Bouzrou wearing a donkey's cap and crossed out with the word "Dismissed" to illustrate the fact that he "chained school setbacks", while explaining that he came from an "extremely modest Moroccan family" and that he "grew up in a city", provoked many reactions on Twitter, especially among lawyers.

"This presentation is particularly degrading. A lawyer is not defined (only) by his educational background, his social or family origin. The dress is the screen for all that. Too bad the screen and those who animate it forget it" , tweeted the president of the National Council of Bars Christiane Féral-Schuhl, also threatening to seize the CSA.

The Paris bar announced on the social network that it was joining the CNB "in its approach with the CSA".

The editor-in-chief of the TF1 group's news channel, Valérie Nataf, admitted on the social network on Thursday "that indeed, this presentation is awkward to say the least".

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