Samantha de Bendern: uninhibited racism on LCI

Samantha de Bendern, researcher and political columnist on LCI, attracted the wrath of Internet users and deputies of La France insoumise (LFI) after her comments made Thursday on the channel, about the arrest of two French gendarmes in Israel .

Samantha de Bendern created controversy after her analysis deemed tendentious on the arrest of two French gendarmes in Israel. “We can’t see the faces of the gendarmes, but one thing that could perhaps excuse the behavior of the Israelis would be if the gendarmes looked like they were… would (sic) perhaps be of North African origin or had the seem to be Arabs,” declared the columnist on Thursday on the LCI set. This is “not the case”, the presenter of the show quickly reacted to limit the damage. But the irreparable had been done.