The preliminary amount of the sanction turned into deemed excessive. The Council of State reduced Tuesday by 300,000 to a hundred and fifty,000 euros on Tuesday a satisfactory imposed with the aid of the audiovisual regulator on the channel nowadays disappeared C8, for a program wherein host Cyril Hanouna had attacked the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.
“The quantity of three hundred,000 euros within the sanction imposed on C8 Company (by means of Arcom in May 2023, editor’s observe) need to be appeared as excessive,” stated the best administrative courtroom in its selection.
The Council of State, which were seized by C8, introduced the pleasant to one hundred fifty,000 euros, “having regard to the severity of the shortcomings in question and all of their characteristics”.
Millions of euros in general
The said comments have been made in an trouble of the Touche pas à mon poste (TPMP) of October 5, 2022. The mayor of Paris, who did now not take part, had been invited through Cyril Hanouna specifically to “near his mouth” and to “chase the rats at night time in preference to saying bullshit”.
C8, channel of the Canal + institution within the giron of the conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, ceased to trouble in March after the non-renewal of its frequency through the Arcom.
His eviction of TNT (virtual terrestrial tv) was largely motivated by way of the “repeated breaches” of the channel, which has accrued 7.6 million euros exceptional due to the slippages of his show Cyril Hanouna.
The latter will be part of the M 6 group in September, for two indicates on Fun Radio and on the W9 channel.
