“Listening to that, I started to get pimples,” confided Jean-Luc Hees to Release Sunday April 7, announcing that he had resigned from his position as member of the Europe 1 ethics committee on February 12. ” That “this is the first part of “L’Heure des pros”, the show hosted by Pascal Praud and co-broadcast with CNews by the radio controlled by Vincent Bolloré, explains the daily.
Jean-Luc Hees does not directly name the show: “I hadn’t listened to Europe 1 for forty years, and then I listened to the station between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.… I didn’t know there would be this at the start of the school year, nor did Philippe de Villiers. » The former president of Radio France (2009-2014) had been appointed barely a month earlier by Europe 1, at the beginning of January, to ensure good ethical practices at the station.
Contacted by Releasethe management of Europe 1 did not comment on this early departure, but simply confirmed that the radio ethics committee, normally made up of three members, only had two left: Bénédicte Wautelet, legal director of Figaro group, and Jacques Lallain, former journalist for Parisian. According to information from Release, the latter, however, would also have resigned from the committee “for purely personal reasons” at the end of January.
Jean-Luc Hees had already been a member of the ethics committee of the Russian channel RT France, between 2017 and 2020. Questioned on this subject by The world in December 2017, he said: “It is better to look from the inside than to see from the outside that something is wrong. It’s a matter of principles. » “If something bothers me, I will leave immediately”, he said. A principle that he seems to have applied again.