NEW DEBAT A BEZIERS-ROBER MENAR THE MAYOR TELL TWO JOURNALISTS TO “FUCK OFF”

After the posters advocating municipal heavily armed police, after the filing of Muslim students, Robert Ménard, mayor of Béziers supported by the National Front, continues to be talked about. The politician would have sent two reporters on Thursday "fuck off," says Liberation.

It is 9 am on Thursday Roirand Olivier (South TV), president of the press club in Montpellier, and Sebastien Hoebrechts (Montpellier Direct Matin Plus), traveled to the town of Beziers to meet Robert Ménard , founder of Reporters without borders, "to try to mediate and quell rising tensions between the elected and the local and regional media," says Press Club. The mayor of the Béziers city is indeed in conflict with the Midi Libre newspaper for several months.

But after ten minutes of just maintenance, the mayor called a "losers," the two journalists, sent them to "fuck off" and drove them out of "his" town hall. He also qualified for Midi Libre "newspaper of shit" and regional media "in press". "This attitude of an elect of the Republic is unacceptable and constitutes a serious attack on democratic values that bears the press, but also an insult against its millions of readers, listeners and viewers. This attitude is all the more inconceivable that Robert Ménard began as a local reporter in Montpellier, co-founded the Press Club and Reporters without Borders created in Montpellier earth "deplores the Press Club.

The journalist Sébastien Hoebrechts explains, "Robert Ménard had accepted our invitation, and our meeting was planned long ago. The tone is mounted, and then he asked us to get out of "his" town hall stating that he was "at home" here. We do not understand why he received us, if it is to send us walk then ... ".

For his part, Robert Ménard responded to the controversy over the release site: "They introduced me this appointment as a courtesy call. Now, these two journalists came to give me a moral lesson. For me, Midi Libre is an opposition newspaper, and I will not bow to them. I was a journalist, so what? All journalists do not necessarily have the talent, and we have the right to criticize without threatening the freedom of the press "

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