It's kinda sad when people aren't sure when you're joking, if you know what I mean.
Any good April Fool's prank has to have a grain of truth to it in order to succeed.
I can't tell if the aired story was true or tongue-in-cheek, since I don't speak French. The video is
here. Perhaps one of the French-speaking FReepers can watch and tell us.
The discussion in
this forum claims that the article "cetais un poisson d'avril" - a fish of April. The
translated French version of Wikipedia says that "un poisson d'avril" French for April Fool's joke (literally, a fish of April).
Color me suspicious.