A long-awaited speech. Arnaud Lagardère, shareholder of Sunday newspaper, spoke this Tuesday morning for nearly an hour to explain himself to the editorial staff, on strike since last week. The announcement – never formalized internally before this Tuesday – of the arrival of the former editorial director of Current values Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the JDD hit like a bomb.
After having presented his apologies for having expressed himself in the columns of the Figaro this Tuesday before having given explanations to the editorial staff, Arnaud Lagardère reconsidered his choice of editorial director, according to sources present at this meeting. ” It’s not Current values that we buy, it is a person who comes, ”explained the shareholder. On the issue of sentencing Current values for racist insults against MP Danièle Obono (LFI) depicted as a slave, Arnaud Lagardère assured that everyone could change and that he was going to turn this page.
This choice “is not ideological”
According to him, the far-right journalist has a “beautiful vision on broadcasting and digital”. He “will not display his closeness to Eric Zemmour as soon as he is at JDD “, also assured Arnaud Lagardère who recalled never having intervened in the editorial line of the newspaper. As he has already said in Le Figaro, this choice “is not ideological, it is economic, Geoffroy Lejeune must allow a new dynamic”. But he confirmed to the editorial staff of JDD : “The appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune has been made and he will come. »
The management of Lagardère must receive the unions and the representatives of the SDJ this Tuesday afternoon. For their part, they have two demands: the abandonment of this appointment and the establishment of the legal independence of the editorial staff, that is to say a right of veto for the editorial staff on the appointment of the director of the writing as it is practiced in World. Arnaud Lagardère has therefore just dismissed the first request by confirming that he would not reconsider his decision.