Animator Arthur requests the withdrawal of videos accusing him of “sexist behaviors”

Animator Arthur asked this Tuesday before the Paris court to force X and Meta to withdraw from their platforms a video montage accusing him of “sexist behaviors” with participants in a television game which he presented on TF 1 in the 2000s.

Published for the first time in early December on Instagram, these extracts from the program “A TAKE OR LEAVE” show Arthur to kiss a candidate by surprise or to say to the ear of another that he “always liked women who (him) resisted ”. Rest on X, these videos have generated abusive and anti-Semitic messages, leading the pre-producer to file a criminal complaint that led to the opening of an investigation.

A “retrospective look at what was admitted 20 years ago” on television

Faced with her, X lawyer considered that the legal conditions for withdrawing content were not met, especially because the assembly had nothing anti-Semitic in itself and did not carry out a “manipulation ». “It is not a deep fake, It is a montage of images available on YouTube in which we see Arthur having behaviors that seem extremely amazing today, after metoo, “said Karim Beylouni, assuring that this assembly made it possible to have a” retrospective look at What was admitted twenty years ago ”on television.

Questioned by Le Parisien on “To take or leave”, the host had invoked at the end of December “another era”. “I was quite close to candidates,” he said, conceding that “today, we could no longer animate in the same way”.

Me Beylouni also estimated that it was not certain that the cyberbullying which Arthur reports “altered his living conditions” to the point of justifying “infringement of user’s privacy” by communicating their data.

By the voice of his lawyer Me Alexandre Ghanty, the Meta platform said he had “objection in principle to the deletion of content and the identification of the users” but said “to put it in court To assess whether the legal conditions were met in this case.

The decision was deliberated on April 3.