Guillaume Herblot wrote that BFMTV had canceled an interview scheduled the day before with Éric Zemmour at the end of the morning, following what he described as a racist attack in Trappes. He attributed this decision to a petition from MP Benjamin Lucas of Génération.s, which denounced a "provocation" and "complicity," alongside the cancellation by the channel's journalists' association and the judgment that the timing was indecent. Herblot condemned what he considered censorship and felt that Zemmour had been sidelined despite his prior invitation to the events. He also claimed that Zemmour had been warning for years about the rising tensions and violence of this kind, and that BFMTV journalists had themselves been attacked on the ground. The author linked this cancellation to the ideas of Jean-François Revel in *La Tentation totalitaire*. He described Revel as a leftist intellectual who gradually became close to the right and liberalism and argued that the temptation to control speech could also exist on the left, particularly under the guise of fighting racism and media accountability. Herblot finally warned that other voices could be pushed aside and believed that censoring debate weakened the Republic. #LibertéDExpression #Censure #DébatSociétal (translated)
