Nicolas Sarkozy associates the words "niggers" and "apes" and unworthy

Nicolas Sarkozy puts his finger in the eye.

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Is it a mistake ?

Or a slip of the tongue, racist, in this case?

In any case, an association of ideas that poses a problem.

Thursday evening, during the

show

, Nicolas Sarkozy joked about the change of title in France of Agatha Christie's novel,

, a title which has a strong racist connotation.

He associated it with the word "monkey", which can also have a strong racist interpretation.

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- Julien Paniac (@JulienPaniac) September 10, 2020

"This will of the elites, who pinch their noses, who are like monkeys who listen to no one ... I don't remember, we have the right to say 'monkey'?

Because… We no longer have the right to say the… What do we say,

(

, in reality) now?

That's it ?

Yeah… She's making the company progress!

(…) Yes, well, we no longer have the right now.

We may have the right to say “monkey” without insulting anyone.

"

Virulent reactions

The former head of state has, to say the least, largely tangled up in wanting to criticize the change of title of Agatha Christie's novel (which had already changed title in its original version in 1940) as a new avatar of "well-thought" visibly hated by Nicolas Sarkozy.

The former head of state created unease on the set of the TMC show, where no one noted the nauseating association of ideas.

This is of course not the case on Twitter where, all night, indignant reactions have multiplied, even leading politicians, such as MEP Yannick Jadot.

The ecologist speaks of "racist shipwreck" of Nicolas Sarkozy.

The leader of the PS, Olivier Faure, also spoke of “racism without a mask”.

@NicolasSarkozy in the midst of a racist shipwreck!

https://t.co/a1bkxGENAi

- Yannick Jadot (@yjadot) September 10, 2020

So a former President of the French Republic spontaneously associates monkeys with "niggers" ... racism without a mask.

🤮 https://t.co/nWbNx2t47p

- Olivier Faure (@faureolivier) September 10, 2020

The journalist and columnist, Claude Askolovitch, also reacted, speaking of a "catastrophe".

The former journalist and now elected from Paris, Audrey Pulvar, has described the words of Nicolas Sarkozy as "uninhibited racism".

But in what country, what time do we live, where a statesman who wants to be funny ratiocin on the word "monkey" and "ten little negroes"?

There is panic about the excesses of small “indigenous” groups, but what a former President dares is a disaster.

https://t.co/4YWEa4YGjw

- claude askolovitch (@askolovitchC) September 11, 2020

Today “we can no longer say anything” but ... we can put an equal sign between “negro” and monkey, in an abysmal silence, without contradiction.

Pure and deep racism, uninhibited, natural.

Quiet.

https://t.co/YFqkQFtkpL

- Audrey PULVAR (@AudreyPulvar) September 10, 2020

The former head of state has not (yet) reacted to the controversy.

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