black book, sleepless nights: Erik Tegnér has a hoarse voice and a tired look. This restless and agitated thirty-year-old, defining himself as “liberal conservative”, promotes Black Book Magazine, a quarterly whose first issue, on newsstands since September 28, is devoted to… immigration. And nothing goes as planned. The entrepreneur is accused of toxic management and fraudulent management by his former partners. “They want to destroy me because I am at a pivotal moment”complains Mr. Tegnér when The world meet him on the day of publication.
Since this summer, this herald of a “union of rights” tending towards radicalism is indeed trying to relaunch the online media (350,000 subscribers on YouTube) which had shaken up the 2022 presidential campaign on the far right. In June 2021, black book had notably carried out an interview with Eric Zemmour in which the former polemicist whispered for the first time his political ambitions. A scoop obtained thanks to the friendship between Erik Tegnér and Sarah Knafo, the advisor and companion of the president of Reconquête!
For more than a year, numerous departures within the team, collaborations by Mr. Tegnér with the pro-Russian media Omerta and a temporary offline of the website had plunged the identity media into the shadows. Videos filmed in recent weeks among migrants from Lampedusa are worth black book a resurgence of notoriety, fueled by the television channel CNews.
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Its team of journalists was completely renewed: its young recruits, half of whom were work-study students who previously worked for other far-right titles, showed up, cameras and microphone in hand, at the back-to-school events of Eric Zemmour and of the National Rally, producing caring reports. The one dedicated to Reconquest summer universities! was removed from YouTube following a copyright complaint.
Some members of this team were already working alongside him before relations with his associates soured, says Mr. Tegnér, determined to put an end to the accusations of toxic management and non-payment (or late payment) of employees detailed on the sites of Release and of The Express on September 19. According to some of them, who describe it “manipulator”, “paranoid”, “megalo” or angry, Erik Tegnér demanded of his troops that they give body and soul to their work, whatever their status.
“You know what a business model ishe said one day to one of his interlocutors, in a conversation of which we, like our colleagues, were able to listen to the recording. It’s called exhausting the work-study students for a year (…) A work-study student can be exploited, sorry. » Comments that the person concerned assumes, describing them as characteristic of“ambitious management”.
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