{"id":528776,"date":"2025-05-09T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=528776"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:28:21","slug":"your-father-is-a-thief-paul-de-saint-sernin-clashes-with-louis-sarkozy-on-live-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/your-father-is-a-thief-paul-de-saint-sernin-clashes-with-louis-sarkozy-on-live-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your father is a thief&#8221;: Paul de Saint-Sernin clashes with Louis Sarkozy on live TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While promoting his latest book on Napoleon on the set of <em>Quelle \u00c9poque!<\/em> on Saturday, May 3, Louis Sarkozy found himself at the center of a controversial moment. Regular panelist and comedian Paul de Saint-Sernin directly targeted the son of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy with a jarring remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYour father is a thief\u2026 That\u2019s all,\u201d Saint-Sernin said bluntly, referring to Nicolas Sarkozy\u2019s conviction in 2021 for corruption and influence peddling, which resulted in a three-year prison sentence\u2014one year to be served under electronic surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly caught off guard, Louis Sarkozy managed a tight smile and calmly replied, \u201cBut not the obligation,\u201d after host L\u00e9a Salam\u00e9 encouraged him: \u201cYou\u2019re allowed to smile.\u201d The moment created visible discomfort among the show\u2019s other guests and the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint-Sernin didn\u2019t stop there. He also took aim at filmmaker Nicolas Bedos, who was on the set promoting his book <em>La soif de honte<\/em> (published by \u00c9ditions de l\u2019Observatoire). The comedian sarcastically announced he would donate the book\u2019s profits to a victims\u2019 charity\u2014without Bedos\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The jab was a direct reference to Bedos\u2019s legal troubles. In October 2024, the director was sentenced to one year in prison, including six months under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, for sexually assaulting two women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The segment has since sparked heated debate online over the limits of humor and the responsibility of public figures on live television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While promoting his latest book on Napoleon on the set of Quelle \u00c9poque! on Saturday, May 3, Louis Sarkozy found himself at the center of a controversial moment. Regular panelist and comedian Paul de Saint-Sernin directly targeted the son of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy with a jarring remark. \u201cYour father is a thief\u2026 That\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":145606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528778,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528776\/revisions\/528778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528776"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528776"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}