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Rabat – CNews and Europe 1 have decided to suspend commentator Jean-Claude Dassier “until further notice” for his racist comments targeting North African nationals imprisoned in France.
The radio and television channels announced the news on Tuesday to AFP.
The decision came after hostile remarks the commentator made during the CNews program.
“We throw them in … we put them in the Mediterranean, where do we put them?” he said. “Algeria doesn’t want them, Tunisia doesn’t want them, Morocco doesn’t want them.”
CNews and Europe described his remarks as “intolerable,” suspending him until further notice.
Host Gauthier responded to Dassier remarks, describing them as “horrible.”
“You’te talking nonsense, you cannot say that on television… Do you realize what you are saying,” the host told the commentator.
In an apparent attempt to justify his racist comments; Dassier claimed it was a “way of saying that we need to send all of them back to their countries of origin.”
Association Alerte Racisme filed a complaint against Dassier to the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication.
“Hallucinating sequences in which foreigners are talked about like animals,” the NGO said.
Several reports highlight racism that Muslims, Arabs and Africans face in Europe, including in the job market.
In 2023, a report from France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) shed light on the struggles migrants of job seekers from the Maghreb region face on the French labor market.
The report reveals that job applicants from North Africa have to navigate with strong discrimination in the country due to prejudices surrounding their roots or origins.
“Applications of comparable quality, which are distinguished only by gender and origin suggested by the names and surnames of the candidates, receive different attention from recruiters,” the report said.
