It’s a little sentence that goes wrong. Monday, June 30, Marine Delplace, the winner of the last edition of the “Star Academy” (TF 1), was invited in “C to you” on France 5. Questioned about one of her songs on the North, the young woman of 25, originally from Arras (Pas-de-Calais), assured that she had wanted to “laugh a little about the clichés we heard in the region”. Relaunched on the question of “consanguinity” by presenter Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine, Marine then said: “The most consanguineous city in France, it is in Normandy. I checked … I think it’s Bolbec, something like that. »»
On the set of the show, the release of Marine made the host and the columnists laugh. But in Bolbec (Seine-Maritime), not really. Elected from the opposition (LFI), Rachid Chebli decided to file a complaint against the singer, but also against Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and against the production of “C to you”. He confirmed it this Friday on BFM Normandy, but he announced it on Wednesday in an “open letter to the Bolbécaises and Bolbécais” published on his Facebook account.
“I was shocked and injured by the remarks made recently in a television program broadcast on public service, in which our city, Bolbec, was ridiculed and slandered, writes the municipal councilor. (…) These words, of extreme symbolic violence, are not only false: they are insulting, degrading, and unworthy of a public media. »»
“I thought it was clumsiness”
On BFM Normandie, Christophe Doré, the mayor of Bolbec, had already reacted this Thursday. “Anger rose to me, then I took it a little lighter, I told myself that it was clumsiness,” he said.
The elected official of this town of nearly 12,000 inhabitants located about thirty kilometers from Le Havre chose to “bounce” on the little sentence of Marine by inviting the winner of the “Star AC” to come and perform in Bolbec: “We have exceptional infrastructures. (…) She is already forgiven for this language error, a youthful error. »»