Yes I noticed that too. But "bête" has many meanings and my french isn't good enough to know if it's suspicious in this context or not.

But either he is asking a "stupid" question or he is addressing the other people in the group ([email protected]) as beasts.

Translations of bête

noun: beast, animal, brute, idiot, goose

adjective: stupid, silly, foolish, idiotic, daft, dense, inane