The editorial staff of the JDD voted almost unanimously to continue the strike until Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. to denounce the appointment as their boss of the journalist marked on the extreme right, Geoffroy Lejeune, announced this Saturday his Society of Journalists (SDJ).
The Journal du Dimanche teams will meet on Monday to vote on whether or not to continue with this movement started on June 22. In total, 98% of the voters expressed themselves on Saturday for the continuation of the movement (90 in favor, two against, four who did not decide). The newspaper will not appear for the second consecutive Sunday, unprecedented, according to a press release from the SDJ. The previous strike in 2016 only affected one Sunday.
The JDD is again absent from the kiosks this Sunday
The editorial office of the JDD, which is in its second week of strike, continues to ask the management of Lagardère News, which owns the weekly, “to resign from the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune” and “offer the editorial office legal and editorial guarantees of independence”.
The consequence of the continuation of the movement was already known since Friday: the Sunday Journal, which had not appeared the week before, will once again be absent from newsstands on Sunday, as a member of the SDJ had told AFP.
Point out ultraconservative views
Many observers see the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at the helm of the newspaper, closely followed by political and economic circles, the hand of billionaire Vincent Bolloré, with supposedly ultra-conservative views.
The latter heads the Vivendi group, a media giant in France, which includes the Canal+ group and its C8 and CNews channels, as well as Prisma, the main magazine press group, and the Editis publishing group.
A takeover bid for Lagardère that is causing a sensation
Geoffroy Lejeune’s appointment came just after the European Commission gave a conditional green light to Vivendi to take over Lagardère, a group that also includes Paris Match, Europe 1 and leading publisher Hachette.
“I made this decision alone. Neither Vincent Bolloré nor anyone from Vivendi was involved,” Arnaud Lagardère, leader of the group of the same name, told Le Figaro newspaper on Tuesday.
Since these announcements, several calls for support have been organized by the JDD editorial staff, in particular a rally, under the aegis of Reporters Without Borders, which brought together nearly a thousand people on Tuesday. A strike fund was opened to support the movement and a petition was launched which had collected over 34,000 signatures on Saturday morning.
Source: BFM TV
