Overview
- The CNews presenter said police were facing “white” protesters and suggested this made intervention difficult during coverage of the A64 farmer standoff.
- LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard labeled the words “unacceptable racist remarks” and said the party would refer the case to the regulator and the public prosecutor.
- Socialist leader Olivier Faure and Communist senator Ian Brossat also condemned the sequence, with Brossat stating he would notify authorities.
- Pascal Praud argued the comment followed discussion of Assa Traoré’s accusation of systemic racism and said police do their job regardless of skin color.
- Le Parisien reported the broadcast’s banners and timing may not have made that context clear as a 47‑second clip spread widely on X, and no public action by Arcom or prosecutors had been reported.