« Alias Benito » : this ironic aside, intended to make his colleagues smile at the expense of Eric Ciotti, should never have reached the ears of viewers of the Franceinfo channel. But on Sunday evening, the microphone of France Télévisions political columnist Nathalie Saint-Cricq was not muted when she made this connection between the leader of the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR), who came first in the first round of the municipal elections in Nice, and Benito Mussolini, the founder of the Italian National Fascist Party and leader of the country for around twenty years until 1945.
The apologies that she immediately presented, live, to the former president of the Les Républicains party for her “inappropriate and inappropriate comments which reflect a lack of discernment” will not change anything: Mme Saint-Cricq will no longer appear on the air until Sunday March 22 inclusive, Philippe Corbé has decidedthe new information director of France Télévisions, as revealed by our colleagues at Parisian.
Although the channel, in turn, apologized on social networks, comments did not fail to proliferate on Monday morning on several private media outlets, condemning this outburst and denouncing the supposed hostility of public broadcasting for the right of the political spectrum. Eric Ciotti’s party is particularly convinced of this: it is he who is at the origin of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the neutrality, operation and financing of public broadcasting, on break until March 23.
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