Wishes death on Greta Thunberg, removed from office president of Amis du Palais de Tokyo

If you think that those railing against Greta Thunberg are only the usual semi-illiterate serial haters who populate the social networks, you are wrong: this time an important name in the Frenchart system also fell for it. Last Saturday, Bernard Chenebault, wealthy entrepreneur (he is the owner of a company that insures works of art), collector and president of the association of the Amis du Palais de Tokyo, the “friends” of one of France’s most important contemporary art museums, was removed from his post for a hate-filled post against the Swedish activist, in which Chenebault even went so far as to wish Greta Thunberg dead.

Chenebault, commenting on an article in a French newspaper that headlined “if Greta Thunberg attracts so much hatred, it is because she goes against what she herself should be,” wrote that “simply, a hateful face arouses hatred back,” and even then commented “I hope a psychopath takes her down.” Moreover, the collector merely responded with a simple “yes” to an indignant user who pointed out to him that within a short period of time he had twice wished death on Greta Thunberg on a social network (in fact, in another comment, he had written that Greta is a “lunatic” and that her appearance “adds a level of hatred in our society already strongly agitated by bad feelings from everywhere. She must be put down.”) The president of the Amis de Tokyo then made amends by apologizing for his words, calling them “serious and totally uncalled for.”“I certainly do not wish Greta Thunberg’s death,” he wrote on his Facebook profile, “and please believe that, in the ’game’ of Facebook, my words deviated completely from my thoughts and intentions.”

However, the justifications were not enough: the Palais de Tokyo disassociated itself from Chenebault’s words, and the museum’s president, Emma Lavigne, immediately called on the entrepreneur and collector, who had led the association since 2013, to resign. In any case, the institute made it clear that the Amis du Palais de Tokyo will meet as soon as possible to choose a new president. For an ill-considered post, Chenebault has therefore lost his post: now one hopes that this will serve as a lesson and may make it clear that hating costs money.

Photo: Greta Thunberg at the European Parliament (ph. Credit European Parliament)

Wishes death on Greta Thunberg, removed from office president of Amis du Palais de Tokyo

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