Paris (AFP)
Columnist Hapsatou Sy, who officiates on C8 and has been present on Canal + Africa since 2017, announced Tuesday her resignation from the television group that she accuses of supporting polemicist Eric Zemmour and of being the relay of "certain extreme theses".
"A message to tell you that I am resigning from any function within the Canal + group", writes the columnist in a text posted on social networks.
"For two years now, I have had to face legal proceedings against Eric Zemmour widely supported by the group (...) and whose trial will take place in September 2022", says the presenter of the magazine "Enquête d'Afrique", to justify her decision.
In 2018, Eric Zemmour qualified the columnist's first name as an "insult to France" who replied with a complaint for "racist insult".
"I realize day by day that the channel has become a sounding board for extreme theses contrary to my values (...)", she insists.
"I do not manage to understand the fact that a group like that of Bolloré strongly rooted in the African economic landscape continues to compromise with this trend which goes against the philosophy of openness and tolerance. of the group ”, continues Hapsatou Sy, who is also an author of books reviewing his career and an entrepreneur.
Controlled by Vincent Bolloré, the Canal + group has recorded a turn to the right in recent years, illustrated in particular by the very conservative news channel Cnews, of which Eric Zemmour is the star polemicist.
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