2023-10-03 23:58:40
It’s a monument that has passed away. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach died this Tuesday at the age of 86. For more than half of his life, the journalist appeared on French television and radio, almost daily. King of interviews, he distinguished himself on several occasions with spicy exchanges and positions not always appreciated by his guests.
” You have no shame ? »
It’s an interview, broadcast on Europe 1, that remains in our memories. “Hello Marine Le Pen. You have no shame ? » asks Jean-Pierre Elkabbach to the woman who was then, in 2015, president of the National Front. Marine Le Pen therefore does not understand this introduction. ” Pardon ? ” ” You have no shame ? » “Ashamed of what? » “You have no regrets?” » “But what are you talking to me about, Mr. Elkabbach? I recognize you there in the provocation. » Jean-Pierre Elkabbach then criticized the president of the FN for not having participated in the demonstrations in support of Charlie Hebdo after the attacks.
” What color ? »
Same entry for André Vallini, then Secretary of State for Territorial Reform. He comes to defend his reform project at the microphone of Europe 1, on May 13, 2014. “What color do you prefer for the wall? » asks Jean-Pierre Elkabbach. “For the wall? Which wall? » “What wall?” The wall on which your territorial reform will crash. » “First of all, it’s not going to shatter. I think we can succeed in this reform even if there is a lot of resistance, the French are waiting for this reform,” replies the minister, visibly annoyed.
“Why isn’t it working with you? »
Hosting the last debate of the right and center primary, in November 2016, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach took on Bruno Le Maire, then a “renewal” candidate, who has since become Minister of the Economy. “Why isn’t it working with you? » he questions her. “But what tells you, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, that it’s not going to work? Do you already know Sunday’s result? Do you know what the French are going to vote for? You know, there is a France of polls, a France of commentators, there is a France of journalists, it is totally free, it has the right to comment and then there is the France of the French…” he continues. “We’ll talk about it Monday morning…” retorts the journalist.
The irritation of Georges Marchais
This is a highlight video. Host of “Cartes sur table”, Jean-Pierre Elkabbach receives a number of political figures. On January 21, 1980, it was the general secretary of the French Communist Party, Georges Marchais, who faced him. But Jean-Pierre Elkabbach’s questions bother him, particularly when he asks him for his opinion on the wars of “the Soviet Union and its fight against imperialism”. “I’ve been talking to you twenty times now and you can’t get your head around the fact that I have a brain too,” says the elected official to an imperturbable journalist.
A few years earlier, in 1978, the two men had already faced each other during the legislative elections. “Wait, listen, you have already received a warning from all the journalists’ unions against the fact that we cannot express ourselves at Antenne 2,” points out Georges Marchais. ” What is wrong. We must not get involved in journalists’ problems, we will respond to them when necessary, Mr. Marchais,” replies the journalist. “Listen to Elkabbach, I think it’s a sufficiently serious evening… If you think that my place is not desirable since the right won, I’ll leave the place to the right and I’ll go elsewhere. They ask me elsewhere, I can go there. » This exchange inspired a more famous “Shut up Elkabbach”, which was however an invention of the comedian Thierry Le Luron.
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