Mireille Mathieu’s Request to Be More “Lenient” with Pussy Riot Censored by Russian TV Channel
Now, TV Tsentr promises to air uncensored interview and claims the guilty journalist has already been fired.
Mireille Mathieu, a famous French singer, claimed her words about Pussy Riot in an interview for Russian TV channel TV Tsentr to be censored, Kommersant says.
She was asked to share her opinion on Pussy Riot’s “punk prayer” in the Cathedral of the Christ the Saviour. “I think the girls did not completely realized what they did as a church is not a place for demonstrations. One protest some other way. A church is for praying, and this [Pussy Riot performance] is sacrilege,” Mireille Mathieu said.
However, the translation given by TV channel TV Tsentr sound the following way: “I think they are insane, I condemn their actions. A church is not the place for such protest actions. Church has always been and will always be the place where people come to find light, for cleansing of soul. It is a sacred place one must have respect for. Especially Russian churches: there is so much zeal here.”
In a statement issued on Thursday, the singer said that her “interview had been partly censored”. “As a woman, an artist and a Christian, I am calling on the Russian authorities to be more lenient with Pussy Riot,” BLOTTR reports.
AFP contacted Tsentr on Wednesday, but Vladislav Chekoian, a correspondent for the channel assured the news agency there was nothing on “being lenient” in the interview.
On Thursday, the same person told Le Figaro the interview contains the aforementioned words, but they were “cut out by an inexperienced journalist” who has already been fired. He also assured that the uncensored version of the interview would be aired later.
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