Hélène Hendriks is put through the wringer in RoddelPraat, Jan Roos’ entertainment show. He pukes on her display in Moroccan dresses. “It makes me feel sick,” he said.
According to Johan Derksen, it was fun once: the flourish of Hélène Hendriks in a Moroccan dress during the Ziggo Sport broadcasts of the Africa Cup. But at some point it became according to critics too much. Moreover, it is anything but journalistically independent, according to a critic such as the well-known TV producer Marc Dik.
Lynched
Jan Roos thinks it is inappropriate of Hélène. “Well, at least we know exactly what Hélène Hendriks would do in 1940 on May 11. He would probably have done a dance in green in a certain broadcast,” he sneers in his program RoddelPraat.
The bickering with Morocco bothers him. “I’ll tell you what: the entire mainstream media has written articles, radio broadcasts, TV broadcasts about Moroccans watching the Moroccan team. They have converted studios all the way to Morocco. That is: if we just mess with them, will things go well?”
On fire
According to Jan it didn’t help. “Well, after losing that final, the big cities were still on fire. It was not an advertisement for African football and not for the African people.”
Hélène shows her weak side, he thinks. “It makes me sick that the mainstream media has come up with the idea: let’s just kiss the Moroccan ass en masse, and then maybe things will go well for once. That is something you increasingly hear from the left, that we have to integrate in that direction, and not the other way around.”
Goat music
It is a bad signal to put Hélène in such an outfit, says Jan. “So we have to become more Moroccan. Well, then Hélène Hendriks will dance to that goat music in a dress like that for a few days and then she thinks it’s good.”
He continues: “Suppose it had been Nigeria against Senegal, would she have gone on television to defraud people on the internet? What would she have done? Or would she have invaded a Christian Nigerian village and cut off everyone’s heads with a machete?”
Slimeball
Hélène is a bit lost for him. “Any other African country, they wouldn’t have done a damn thing with that. It’s that slime ball with those Moroccans to hope that it will be a little more pleasant this way, and it won’t be. Just look at how that final went: that’s what you get. Violence, mess, corruption, aggression, misery.”
He concludes: “I haven’t been to big cities for years because it is not safe for me to walk around there. And not because of the Senegalese, I can tell you.”
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An excerpt from RoddelPraat:
