Overview
- France Télévisions confirmed Saturday that president Delphine Ernotte will lodge a criminal complaint on Monday, April 27, for the French offense of “outrage sexiste et sexuel,” which covers sexist or sexual insults made in public.
- Patrick Sébastien released the track “Delphine” on Friday, April 24, as the first song on his new album Olé Osé vol. 2, using explicit sexual lyrics that name Ernotte and tie his claims to his 2019 exit from France 2.
- The song also riffs on Ernotte’s past remark about “too many white men over 50” on air, a line Sébastien echoes while recounting grievances from his 23 years at the public broadcaster.
- Separately, the Béziers prosecutor plans to question Sébastien later this month in a preliminary investigation into alleged sexual exhibition linked to 2025 concert footage reported by Franceinfo.
- Sébastien called the song “total and deliberate excess” in a radio response, as the clash unfolds during a parliamentary review of France Télévisions’ governance that has already exposed disputes over impartiality, spending and management.