LCI viewers will no longer find the expertise of Sergei Jirnov, ex-KGB spy, on the war in Ukraine. Indeed, on his account Facebookhe revealed that he was thanked by the news channel of the TF1 group following having described the Russian President, Vladimir Poutine, as a “fiotte”, on September 14 during “Brunet et Cie”.
“I inform you that the management of LCI has taken the decision to deprive you of my expertise of more than 40 years in the field of international relations and intelligence, and in particular concerning the post-Soviet world and the current Russian war once morest the Ukraine. I was very concretely reproached for having used an unfortunate slang word of which I did not know all the meanings in French, given that the language of Molière, despite all my experience, is not my mother tongue. “, he explains on the social network.
And to add: “On the other hand, LCI reproached me for having intervened on other channels in the situation of the urgent reaction to Putin’s latest statements and measures which have put the whole world in danger from the third According to the LCI, pending a possible reintegration on 09/26/2022 into the usual teams, I should have remained silent this week and not responded to the dozens of requests for interviews for many French, American, Canadians, Belgians, Swiss, Israelis, Russians and Ukrainians”.
“I specify that no written or moral contract that might require such absurd obligations in a Western society with freedom of expression has ever existed between the LCI and me (moreover, this is legally illegal in France). I spare you the insignificant details of the commercial squabble between the TF1 and CANAL + groups which does not even concern me but which might further explain the excessiveness of the reaction“.
Last night, on the set of “TPMP”, Cyril Hanouna reacted to the decision of the news channel of the TF1 group. “I’ll explain LCI’s methods to you. There’s a guy who comes here, whom we discover, who everyone is talking regarding, they see that it’s a hit and the next day, they call him. (…) Them, it’s all from behind, it’s just soft shots. They’re always like that. They sting everyone, “he said, adding that” these are people who don’t have no courage. They are like Putin”.