Prisca Thevenot replied that it was not he who had brought the subject to the fore, but that it was he who had decided to go on TF1's 8 p.m. news to announce the ban on the abaya. She added that this garment was not, at the time, the main problem in schools.
Prisca Thevenot defended Gabriel Attal on Thursday in the red armchairs of"Complément d'enquête,"where she came to support his campaign. According to the partial transcript broadcast by France Info, she answered questions about the candidate's absence and about his actions when he was minister of National Education.
She placed her appearance within a campaign conducted"as close as possible to the French people."Facing interviewers, one of whom supports Éric Zemmour and the other Jean-Luc Mélenchon, she said she was supporting a candidate named Gabriel Attal who was letting her take the red armchair on his behalf.
The exchange returned to the start of the 2023 school year, when Gabriel Attal was minister of National Education. The journalist noted that he had placed the question of the abaya in the public debate, to the point, according to her, of drowning out the debate.
Asked whether he sometimes overcommunicated, she said it was important to communicate. Judging whether or not he overcommunicated was, she said, up to the interviewer and not to her: simply answering"no"would have been, in her words, too easy.
The program recalled having followed Gabriel Attal for several weeks, even several months, at various events. This investigative portrait is the third of the season, according to the transcribed exchange. The published transcript corresponds to only part of the interview.