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Lawyer likens Franceinfo's Knafo interview to police questioning

Pascal Praud's panel criticizes the interviewers' approach before widening the discussion to political responses to violence in France.

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Sarah Knafo sur France Info : "Même en garde à vue, on ne pose pas des questions comme ça"

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0:58Knafo objects to the implications of questions about the Trappes attack in the first Franceinfo excerpt.
3:23Lawyer Pascal-Pierre Garbarini compares the interviewers' tone unfavorably with questioning in police custody.
5:26A second excerpt shows Knafo and the interviewers disputing the terms of the exchange.
7:54Lara Tchekov accuses the public broadcaster's journalists of lacking neutrality and implicitly accusing their guest.
12:24Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon accuses La France Insoumise of exploiting tragedies for political purposes.
14:36A confrontation involving MP Benjamin Lucas over Crépol precedes the panel's closing criticism of far-left rhetoric.

An interview about an attack in Trappes becomes an argument over who controls the questions, as Sarah Knafo challenges her Franceinfo interviewers and one tells her she does not set the studio's rules.

France's Europe 1 carries the exchange in an excerpt from L'Heure des Pros, the CNews and radio debate hosted by Pascal Praud. This is a panel's critique of the interview, interspersed with clips, rather than the uninterrupted Franceinfo broadcast.

Knafo, a Reconquête politician elected to the European Parliament in 2024, is shown being questioned by Audrey Tison and Simon Le Baron. She objects to what she perceives as an implication that her political camp encourages violence, asking whether the journalists think they make calls for murder. Le Baron later insists that she cannot dictate the terms of the interview.

Back in Praud's studio, journalist Olivier de Lagarde argues that the questions amount to political positioning. Lawyer Pascal-Pierre Garbarini criticizes their delivery, comparing it unfavorably with questioning in police custody. His comparison supplies the upload's headline; it is an assessment of the interview, not a description of any legal proceedings involving Knafo.

Journalist Lara Tchekov similarly accuses the interviewers of abandoning neutrality and implicitly accusing their guest. These are the panelists' judgments about Franceinfo, part of France's public radio broadcaster Radio France. Writer Jean-Marie Rouart then broadens the criticism to the political climate and those in power.

The latter part moves beyond Knafo. A clip shows government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon accusing the left-wing party La France Insoumise of exploiting tragedies for political purposes. Another shows a television confrontation involving MP Benjamin Lucas over the Crépol tragedy. Tchekov and fellow panelists finish by criticizing what they describe as the far left's rhetorical methods.