Before turning off, C8 posts by surprise the anti-abortion film « UNPLANNED »-Liberation
A final provocation before returning the antenna. Unexpectedly, the C8 channel, in the fold of the Catholic billionaire Vincent Bolloré, broadcast an anti-abortion TV movie on Friday, February 28, before turning off at midnight. While a nostalgia program unrolled the « Strong moments » of the chain, C8 has changed without transition or prevent on Aplannedpreceding its broadcast on Friday evening by the following message: “In France, any woman has the right to have her body as she sees fit. This right is guaranteed by law and the constitution. This account which engages that its author does not mean questioning this right but of measuring all the importance ”.
Produced by an evangelical Christian studio, this American fiction telefilm relating the reversal of an old framework of the family planning Having become an anti-abortion activist had met with unexpected success when it was released in the United States in the spring of 2019 but also aroused strong criticism of its veracity, particularly a scene of abortion showing a fetus to struggle. Aplanned had already been broadcast on August 15, 2021 by C8, collecting an audience at half mast and A shower of reports at Arch.
In March 2024 before the National Assembly commission of inquiry on the allocation of TNT frequencies, Vincent Bolloré was displayed without « Ideological project »while hammering his Christian faith, particularly in matters of abortion. For practicing Catholic, abortion is « Something terrible » Or « Two freedoms » se « Hit » :: « The freedom of people to have themselves » and that « Children to live »he had said in particular, two weeks after an intense controversy about abortion caused by a Catholic program broadcast on CNews.
Once the TV movie is finished on Friday evening, the channel programmers were rebuilt on the initial program. Concluded by an appearance of the fallen figure Cyril Hanouna, informing the viewer of the new version Touche not at my postwhich will be visible in particular in streaming. Message itself preceded by a mention – « Long live freedom! » – Visible on the screen. Last spike for Arch, before the black screen.
