The director of France 3 Center-Val de Loire, Jean-Jacques Basier, files a complaint against X for threats received after his name was given live on Pascal Praud's show on CNews, "L'heure des pros" .
France 3 Center-Val de Loire had refused a documentary on the festivals commemorating Joan of Arc.
A complaint was lodged by a leader of the regional network of France 3. By the director of France 3 Center-Val de Loire, Jean-Jacques Basier, who files a complaint against X for threats received after his name was given, in direct, on the show
L'heure des pros
on CNews, last Friday.
It was Pascal Praud, the presenter, who had quoted him on several occasions, without giving him the floor, in a sequence of the program evoking the refusal of France 3 Center-Val de Loire to broadcast a documentary.
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Controversy of the documentary on Joan of Arc
The documentary in question, which France 3 Center-Val de Loire had a time scheduled to broadcast, focused on the festivals held each year in Orleans to commemorate Joan of Arc.
The film had been financed by the city and finally refused by France 3. "Several elements suggest that this program will be a product too politicized", explained the chain in a letter addressed to the town hall.
In his program, the host Pascal Praud had returned to this refusal, in the company of the husband of Orleans Serge Grouard, regularly invited in
The hour of the pros
.
The sequence seems to have heated the spirits of some viewers, who would have seen fit to directly attack the director of France 3 Center-Val de Loire.