The former leader of the LCI channel and ex-president of the OM football club said on Tuesday, during a debate on juvenile delinquency, that "Muslims, they don't give a damn about the Republic, they don't don't even know what the word means".
Words that have not been contradicted during the show and have since caused an outcry on social networks.
The president of SOS Racisme Dominique Sopo also announced Thursday on Twitter his intention to seize "the Paris prosecutor's office so that justice prosecutes these racist ratiocinations".
Thursday, journalist Barbara Klein "wanted to come back to the words" of her columnist.
"I wanted to tell you that his words only engage him and in no way the channel or the editorial staff of CNews", she assured during her show "La belle team".
Contacted by AFP, Arcom (ex-CSA) said it had been seized about this sequence.
The regulator is regularly for slippages observed on CNews and C8, two channels of the Canal + group, a subsidiary of Vivendi, controlled by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
He recently opened the way to a sanction procedure after host Cyril Hanouna insulted a deputy on C8.
In 2021, she fined CNews 200,000 euros for "incitement to hatred" and "violence" after comments by Eric Zemmour calling unaccompanied minor migrants "thieves", "murderers" and "rapists".
The day after this diatribe, held in the fall of 2020, the presenter Christine Kelly had dissociated herself from it, like the society of editors of the chain.
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