Controversy after a France Inter column targeting RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy

In his column entitled “the RN fines the veil”, Monday, the comedian from France Inter Ameziane was not only content to criticize the proposal of the National Rally (RN) to sanction the wearing of the veil with a fine. He also attacked the physique of the nationalist deputy, Jean-Philippe Tanguy, who detailed the measure on Sunday on the set of the Grand Oral BFM-Le Figaro. “You don’t think he has the head of a rat which would have transformed into a human, whose mutation would have been stopped 80%,” he quipped to the laughter of the other journalists in the studio.

“Guys are always disgusting. It's already hard to watch being of Algerian origin, but as a homosexual it's unbearable. If you like men, forget conversion therapy, you watch the interview with Jean-Philippe Tanguy and that’s it,” he said, while the nationalist elected official has always embraced his homosexuality, regularly speaking to the media.

“It was my niece who told me, it’s not my fault, I regret what I just said,” the man tried to dismiss. “He annoys me because he is homosexual and he remains in a party that constantly votes against LGBT rights. I know that this paradox is his human side, but he could have used his rat side to sense the trap,” he reiterated. “Sorry, I’ll stop making physical jokes, it’s not good,” he says, all smiles. Before continuing: “Usually it’s the fascists who do it. If he is not happy, he could just hide under a veil.”

“He no longer has his place in the public service”

The targeted MP close to Marine Le Pen subsequently reacted on his X account, deploring a “vile sequence”, and “methods worthy of the worst hateful ideologies without any trace of humor”. Before recognizing: “I deplore that no member of the France Inter “public service” intervened – on the contrary, they sneered. I hope that the management of Radio France will have a dignified reaction.” By means of a tutorial, the elected official of the flame party calls for seizing Arcom, the media policeman.