Philippe Vandel's guest on Europe 1, Wednesday morning, the journalist François Busnel returned to the case Yann Moix and the decision of the writer not to honor his invitation in the literary program of France 5, Wednesday, September 11.

INTERVIEW

"There should not be Yann Moix tonight." Wednesday morning, on Europe 1, François Busnel denied the fact that the writer was to be on the set of La Grande Librairie on France 5 the same evening. "We are in the dictatorship of hasty comment," he lamented at the microphone of Philippe Vandel in Culture Media, about rumors about the presence of the writer for the first issue of the new season (see box). "I had to receive Yann Moix next week, September 11, and certainly not on the first show." But as for other media, he decided to cancel the promotion of his new book, Orleans .

For a week, Yann Moix is ​​at the heart of a controversy over the antisemitic content of his writings and drawings of youth, exhumed by L'Express . But the invitation of François Busnel dated from before these revelations. "I wanted to invite him for several reasons," says the journalist on our antenna. "The first is that the book, in its first part at least, is great.Yann Moix is ​​a difficult character, curious, exaggerated.I like exaggerated people, but not at that point", tempered François Busnel.

A guest "more like the others"

"In the meantime, Yann Moix has become what is called a guest 'more like the others' for the reasons I will not come back," the public service journalist continues. The writer particularly apologized for writing and drawing these anti-Semitic elements.

Should we move on to something else and not invite him? "From the moment all that exists, you have to question him, ask all the questions," answers François Busnel. "I think we probably would have had a good time on television, talking about a hot topic that is anti-Semitism and revisionism." He decided, and it was his choice, not to come, end of the story."

A twelfth season for "La Grande Librairie"

Talking about books on a national channel in prime time , mission impossible? Not for François Busnel, whose Great Bookstore begins Wednesday at 20:50 his twelfth season on France 5. For the first issue, the journalist brings together four women writers (Amelie Nothomb, Julia Deck, Monica Sabolo and Cécile Coulon) during a special the opener and life of Toni Morrison, American icon dead last month.