After Foot is in turmoil. The flagship program of RMC was pointed out for organizing a special evening, on April 3, on the subject of communitarian and Islamists in the world of football. A theme addressed from a
parliamentary report On the subject.
To illustrate the debate, After Foot had called on Macronist MP Caroline Yadan, at the origin of this report also supported by Julien Odoul (national rally). “We know them. There are some who pray in the locker rooms, as we know, others require prayer rooms. Two, three players are able to stop in full training to pray. Neutrality in sport exists and it is absolutely necessary that the state is strong ”, notably declared the politician. The angle used to tackle the subject hit many after football listeners.
A columnist of the show, Walid Achechour explained his desire to withdraw for the next few days, while the historic presenter of the show Gilbert Brisbois tried to make an honorable almond by making a mea-culpa on the antenna.
For Pierre Ménès, this program “will leave traces”
Pierre Ménès was called upon to react on this controversy.
“I obviously did not listen to the After Foot because I never listen to the radio in the evening. I am not a customer. I actually heard and seen from the extracts the next day. I find that the first mistake is to make a program like that. »»
“” So afterwards, it denotes a certain courage because I think, without stigmatizing or schematizing, that a good part of the listeners of the After are people from immigration, continued the former columnist of the Canal Football Club on his YouTube channel. Because, whether we like it or not, as I often say, my target heart, it's black, Arabs and cops. I am told that it is not good to say that, I say but if, because statistically, blacks, Arabs and cops love football. It's not more complicated than that. »»
And Pierre Ménès to specify his thought. “So making a program like that, I hope that the people of the After were not surprised by the reactions because it was very predictable. I also think that inviting Caroline Yadan to illustrate a program like that, it is a bit of an invention of the demon. »» For the journalist: “It is a program that will still leave traces and hurts the after and its profile. »»
