A resident wearing protective gear checks a mobile phone in Wuhan, Hubei province, as China holds a national mourning for those who died of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on April 4, 2020. BFMTV and Lechypre were lambasted as racist and ‘shockingly insensitive’ on social media after the business reporter made a wildly inappropriate comment over live footage of the three-minute silence observed across China. — Reuters
PARIS: A French rolling news channel was forced to apologise on Saturday after one of its reporters was heard to whisper "they are burying the Pokemons" during coverage of China's day of mourning for coronavirus victims.
BFMTV and its journalist Emmanuel Lechypre were lambasted as racist and "shockingly insensitive" on social media after the business reporter made the comment over live footage of the three-minute silence observed across China.
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