Watch out for this false xenophobic diatribe attributed to Michel Sardou

Michel Sardou in Nice, May 5, 2011. -

While it has been circulating for several years on the Internet, a long and false quote attributed to Michel Sardou has resurfaced on the Internet since Monday, three days after the attack which targeted a professor in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

Beginning with “I am Islam, I don't care about it”, the xenophobic diatribe attacks “allogeneic cultures”.

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Michel Sardou strongly condemned these writings in 2015, while they were circulating in the form of a letter he would have written to François Hollande.

"It is obvious that the" letter "published on social networks and addressed to François Hollande is a fake", had then underlined representatives of the singer and actor on his official Facebook page.

“It's identity theft.

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With Franceinfo, Michel Sardou declared himself "stunned, collapsed, on the ass" after the publication of this text.

“I am everything except what they say!

I have never been a racist in my life, nor an Islamophobe!

It's worse than an insult or a slap, ”he said.

A complaint had been lodged with the Paris police headquarters, his press officer at

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Before being attributed to Michel Sardou, this text had been circulating since at least 2010 on Quebec blogs, as Arrested on images had spotted.

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