Xavier Niel insults Elon Musk and makes him a joke that he cannot understand

After the businessmen and billionaires Xavier Niel and Elon Musk exchanged several insults, the French entrepreneur made an unlikely proposal to his American counterpart.

Has Elon Musk got caught by smarter than him? The American billionaire accustomed to provocative declarations this time was the target of a cheeky comment. And it is none other than Xavier Niel, the French businessman and billionaire also used to provocation, who irritated the owner of SpaceX and Tela by dealing with “asshole” on France 2February 10.

“I think it is the biggest entrepreneur in the world and next to that a boy that we will describe as a minimum ‘complex’ and I will use a difficult word, maybe sometimes an asshole,” said laughing The founder of Free to describe the American. To justify the use of the insult, Xavier Niel evokes the “sliced, extreme positions” that Elon Musk can have, share and defend. Driving in the breach, the French businessman also considered that the American entrepreneur could be dangerous “at least by his words […] Like any more intelligent person who is uninhibited and immediately says what she thinks. “

Declarations which have not escaped the person concerned, who hastened to react on his social network X. Elon Musk did not go there with a dead hand, recalling that Xavier Niel “was sent to prison to have was a pimps with a group of prostitutes “. The founder of Free was actually placed in pre -trial detention for a month in 2004 when he was indicted for pimping and concealment of abuse of corporate goods. The billionaire had finally benefited from a dismissal for the accusations of pimping in August 2005 and had been sentenced to two years in prison with Suris as well as 250,000 euros fine for the other charges in October 2006.

A meeting at Lidl

The virtual exchange between the two entrepreneurs adept at media outings did not stop there. Xavier Niel followed Elon Musk offering him in the tone of the irony to “settle this to the Lidl”, seeming to want to relax the situation. This is not the first time that the founder of Free has been called – falsely – to settle his accounts before the brand. In November 2024, the entrepreneur went to a Marseille store in response to a surfer who, six months earlier, had offered him a confrontation on X: “Xavier Niel I hate you, I offer you a 1v1 in front of the Lidl de la rue Sainte in Marseille “.

The man who is one of the greatest fortunes in France then posted a photo at the internet user on X accompanied by the comment: “I am waiting for you”. There followed an exchange, not devoid of humor, which has become viral between the Internet user and the entrepreneur, in particular a video of Xavier Niel saying wanting to do battle: “I’m there, I’m waiting for you! So where there, come! Will Elon Musk answer her French counterpart? Little luck that Xavier Niel’s sequence in Lidl has reached him, so he could find it difficult to see where the Frenchman wants. It remains to be seen if the exchange continues and if the two men will one day meet in front of the brand. The scenario seems very hypothetical, but the image could become viral.