TF1 censors passages about the French police in a cartoon


C’is an important detail that has not gone unnoticed by fans of Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. As spotted Le Figaro, more than three minutes of images were removed in the episode of season 4, broadcast on the morning of Sunday March 6 on TF1. This episode, titled Qilintherefore lasted a little over 18 minutes instead of the usual 22 minutes, which did not fail to intrigue some Internet users, who denounced a form of censorship.

Among the sequences deleted but available in English in versions broadcast abroad, we find the somewhat condescending speech of an RATP controller to the mother of the heroine Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who refuses to believe that her daughter will come and join her with her wallet and the tickets. Marinette was indeed out a few moments time to go flowers during a stop. 30 seconds of this speech, showing the controller skeptical of Madame Dupain-Cheng’s explanations and wanting to impose a fine on him, were cut off from the daily’s note.

A few minutes later, the RATP controller introduces Marinette’s mother to Roger, a police officer whom she knows very well because their daughters are studying together. While the RATP agent questions her allegations and the fact that she has a daughter and even if Roger knows who she is, he claims to want to apply the law by checking her identity. Handcuffed by four helmeted CRS, Marinette’s mother finds herself humiliated.

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“Unfortunate excess of caution”

On social networks, the creator of the Franco-Korean-Japanese series, Thomas Astruc, justified himself by starting by telling Internet users that it was not his decision. “Our desire was to show how, from a minor incident, the situation could easily degenerate if the law or orders were applied blindly,” he explained.

“This should not be seen as a bad intention, but probably an unfortunate excess of caution. In terms of meaning, I think it’s counter-productive, since it amounts to showing the existence of something arbitrary, but without explaining it, or showing how it is constructed. Pity. “, he added in remarks relayed by Le Figaro.

Broadcast since 2015 on the youth program TFOU on TF1, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir takes place in Paris. Aged 14, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste are the two heroes of the series and transform into Ladybug and Cat Noir, a duo that protects the French capital from akumas, evil butterflies that transform Parisians into atrocious characters . “Injustice, abuse of power and blind ignorance”, felt the Papillonthe villain of Miraculousat the time of the arrest of Marinette’s mother, in one of the passages censored by TF1.


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