Capture of a program from "Vacances des Anges" on NRJ12 -
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Candidates for the
Holiday of Angels
involved in an altercation with several customers of a hotel in Saint-Denis, including the mayor of Saint-André, were released on Monday after their custody, said a judicial source.
No charge has yet been brought against Nehuda and Ricardo, the two “Angels”, and Pauline, their child's nanny.
On the other hand, the two candidates who were to participate in the filming of season 4 of the reality show "are permanently removed from the show, they will not participate in the filming and will leave Reunion Island from the first hour," said the production this Monday afternoon.
"The investigations are continuing"
Their release annoyed the mayor of Saint-André, Joe Bedier.
"So we come here, we are smashed and we leave," he lamented to journalists on the announcement of their release.
"The investigations are continuing of course," said the public prosecutor Eric Tuffery.
Sunday afternoon, he opened an investigation for willful violence in a meeting following an altercation in the hotel dining room.
The argument had broken out between the candidates and several families, including that of Joe Bedi, mayor of Saint-André (eastern town), after the nanny had passed from table to table by ordering customers to not make photos and videos.
Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu gave his support to Joe Bedier, like almost the entire local political class.
Calls to rally "against demons"
At the same time, the production company La Grosse Equipe announced that the new show
Les Vacances des Anges
will ultimately not be produced on Reunion Island.
"Following the recent incident, outside the filming of the program
Les Vacances des Anges,
La Grosse Equipe noted that the conditions of serenity were no longer met to allow filming of the program on Reunion Island", the statement explained.
Indeed, videos posted on social networks by witnesses and showing the violence of the fight aroused great indignation among the population.
On social networks thousands of messages, often openly xenophobic, condemned the “Angels” and asked them to “return home”.
The acts of violence committed on the sidelines of the @LesAngesTV shoot are inadmissible!
I strongly condemn the assault on the mayor of Saint-André, Joe Bedier, and his family.
An investigation was opened for willful violence in assembly by the prosecutor of Saint-Denis.
- Sébastien Lecornu (@SebLecornu) January 10, 2021
The address of the filming location, a high-class villa on the west coast, has been posted online and calls for a “against the demons” rally have been made.
Posted on Sunday evening, a petition calling for the cancellation of the filming of the show had already collected more than 13,800 signatures on Monday afternoon.
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