Dany Boon “flooded with insults and anonymous threats” – Le Point

The laughter as a weapon, Dany Boon chose very early. From an early age, as he confided this Sunday at JDD. “From my childhood, I have experienced rejection with a secular Muslim Kabyle father and a Catholic mother,” he says the newspaper. “I saw racism against Kabyle from the Algerians, but also the exclusion of my mother’s family who took my father to an Arab. I was a minority in my own family,” he explains.

So, yes, the actor says “broken on racism.” Even more since he converted it 13 years ago, to Judaism. He still recalls a remark by a journalist about it: “. Now that you’re Jewish, you are rich” To which he immediately replied: “I was rich when I was Catholic and there are also poor Jews.” The director of the famous Welcome to the Sticks was also added that “flooded with anonymous insults and threats.” And “it continues today.”

“The spirit Charlie is alive”

In this interview, Dany Boon is also up on January 11 march dedicated to the victims of Charlie Hebdo bombings . An event that has “upset”. “I had come expressly from Los Angeles to participate in this great national momentum,” he recalls. “I was not in the VIP motorcade with Heads of State, I wanted to join the crowd.” For the French actor, “the spirit Charlie ” In any case “still alive”. Even if “everyone went home” and that “the problem remains.”

“The problem”? “This is a very powerful sect that has nothing to do with religion,” the actor, who speaks of de-socialized young, fragile, who received no religious education and that fall, so, “in the sign “. Dany Boon, however, knows that there will “always people to make amalgams with Islam and Muslims.” It also points to a recent event, the case of Bikini Reims, who had created the media frenzy. “Some have felt immediately compelled to tell attention, it is not a religious conflict . This speaks volumes about the state of opinion in terms of Islamophobia.”