Chained Duck Storm. Journalist Christophe Nobili, who accuses his management of having financed a fictitious job, has been laid off and could be fired, according to an internal email revealed by Release. This episode marks an escalation in the crisis that has shaken the satirical weekly for several months.
“The Duck Board of Directors has just unanimously taken a difficult decision. A procedure that could lead to dismissal has been initiated against Christophe Nobili, ”says the internal email sent to employees on Sunday by a member of the board of directors.
Last August, Christophe Nobili had denounced the fact that the companion of a former cartoonist and administrator of Le Canard had benefited for two decades from remuneration from the newspaper without having ever worked there. He had filed a complaint against X and an investigation for “abuse of corporate assets” and “concealment of abuse of corporate assets” had been opened. The journalist released the book “Dear Duck” on March 8, in which he returns to this affair, which brought to light fractures within the editorial staff.
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“We sent Christophe Nobili a letter of invitation to a preliminary interview and decided to lay him off as a precaution”, it is specified in the internal email. A decision taken after the publication of his book. “Does Le Canard take itself for Bolloré? “, denounced Monday in a press release the union of journalists SNJ-CGT, of which Christophe Nobili is union delegate within the weekly marked on the left.
Christophe Nobili is one of the journalists behind the revelations about suspicions of fictitious employment concerning François Fillon’s wife, Pénélope Fillon, during the 2017 presidential campaign.