On the CNews set, Frank Tapiro regretted his absence at a conference in Lyon with high school students. The organizers would have canceled his presence due to the controversial remarks he made against Karim Benzema.
Retired from the French team since the 2022 World Cup and even exiled in Saudi Arabia, Karim Benzema, who asked for absolutely nothing, remains the target of certain polemicists… Frank Tapiro cited the 2022 Ballon d’Or when he complained, Saturday on the CNews set, about his absence at a conference at the Catholic University of Lyon with high school students from the region. The organizers canceled the presence of Nicolas Sarkozy’s former advisor for several reasons.
“ 10, 15 days ago, I received a cryptic text message: ‘we absolutely have to talk to you’, I thought it was for security reasons when I came. They felt that given my position in relation to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, given what I say in the media, also given that Karim Benzema, from Lyon, would have issued a fatwa against me, my presence was no longer desirable. », Regrets Tapiro.
Frank Tapiro, when his presence at a conference in Lyon was canceled by the organizers: “Finally today, we are submitting education in the face of hatred. An alleged hatred between Jews and Arabs” in #HDProsWE pic.twitter.com/VLHv8LSmcy
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The 58-year-old advertising executive himself alienated “KB9” with defamatory comments a month ago. “ Karim Benzema is complicit in terrorism, he is a collaborator! », Launched Tapiro on i24NEWS when pointing out the lack of support from French personalities towards Israel after the Hamas attacks as well as the support of the former captain of Real Madrid in favor of Palestine.
Gérald Darmanin had created a scandalous controversy by asserting, already on CNews, that Benzema was “ notoriously linked to the Muslim Brotherhood “. The 35-year-old Lyonnais then filed a complaint for defamation against the Minister of the Interior, then against Tapiro and European MP Nadine Morano (Les Républicains), who estimated (on Europe 1, another Bolloré group media outlet) that the former -French international was “ an element of Hamas propaganda “.
