Seven denies French newspaper reports Sunday Night’s burkini story was a set up
The Seven Network have denied claims made in a French newspaper that its Sunday Night report on Australians kicked off a beach on the south of France for wearing burkinis was staged.
Last Sunday the network aired a segment on its flagship current affairs show centred around student Zeinab Alshelh who it said travelled to France to show solidarity with Muslims there after burkinis were banned on some beaches in the Riviera, including Cannes.
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The segment apparently shows the women being told to leave the beach, where there is no burkini ban, by locals who threatened to call the police, as well as a woman giving the group a thumbs down.
I live in Nice .I can confirm that it was staged … Islamists have staged several affairs last years.
Well between Channel 9’s clean, respectful and well funded kidnapping attempts in Lebanon and the ugly air surrounding this, it certainly wouldn’t be out of the realms of possibility would it?
Completely lacking in cultural sensitivity and sticking its boot right in the face of a people that are getting over an attack.