At the start of 2020, Léa Salamé flew to Beirut to meet Carlos Ghosn. At the time, the journalist had been violently criticized on social networks.
This is an interview that Léa Salamé will remember for a long time. In January 2020, the France Inter journalist traveled to Beirut, Lebanon, to interview Carlos Ghosn. At the time, the former CEO of Renault-Nissan had fled Japan, where he was accused of misuse of corporate assets. “For many children, you are the man who traveled in the trunk. Did you really travel in the trunk? The trunk, not the trunk? Come on, any hints?”, she asked the former businessman in particular in a sequence broadcast on social networks. Quickly, Léa Salamé was the victim of violent mockery. “I’m in Beirut, I see the thing going up… I’m getting ‘dirty bitch, go home!’ I’ve seen racist stuff, I’ve seen sexist stuff”she regretted in the podcast Info desk.
“We invented that he was my father’s best friend! Racism hurt me. I don’t want to read stuff like that. It hurts me, I cried”, she confided, still in shock. In the columns of SocietyLéa Salamé explained that “this video served as a teaser for the interview, the day before the broadcast”. This “three-minute extract”the journalist did not “absolutely not validated” but France Inter broadcast it. “The question about the trunk, I claim it. It was the big thing, how he fled, let’s not play the hypocrites. Cis the only time when I choose to take it on the tone of humor, I do the little valve to try to get the info, what. I accept the deal to be lynched. But judge me on the interview as a whole.”regretted the journalist.
Léa Salamé: “I had a really angry feeling”
Léa Salamé especially did not understand that her employer decided to choose this specific extract to tease her interview with Carlos Ghosn. “France Inter chose to edit the nice and funny three minutes on the trunk. At midnight, I’m in the airport hall, and I see the thing going up on the networks”, she remembered, quite pissed at the radio station. Far from France, Léa Salamé lived very badly to be attacked so much on social networks. “I had never seen Carlos Ghosn in my life, and it was said that he was a friend of my familycontinued the journalist. I was called a ‘dirty Lebanese whore’. For once, it even made me cry. I had a real feeling of anger against France Inter. It was unfair to limit my interview to this excerpt.”
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3/12 –
Lea Salame
At the time, the former CEO of Renault-Nissan had fled Japan, where he was accused of misuse of corporate assets
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4/12 –
Lea Salame
“For many children, you are the man who traveled in the trunk. Did you really travel in the trunk? The trunk, not the trunk? Come on, any hints?”
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5/12 –
Carlos Ghosn
Quickly, Léa Salamé was the victim of violent mockery
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6/12 –
Lea Salame
“I’m in Beirut, I see the thing going up… I’m getting ‘dirty bitch, go home!’ I’ve seen racist stuff, I’ve seen sexist stuff”
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7/12 –
Lea Salame
“We invented that he was my father’s best friend! Racism hurt me. I don’t want to read stuff like that. It hurts me, I cried”
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8/12 –
Carlos Ghosn
In the columns of Society, Léa Salamé explained that “this video served as a teaser for the interview, the day before the broadcast”
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9/12 –
Carlos Ghosn
This “three-minute extract”, the journalist “absolutely did not validate” it, but France Inter broadcast it
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10/12 –
Carlos Ghosn
“The question about the trunk, I claim it. It was the big thing, how he fled, let’s not play the hypocrites”
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11/12 –
Lea Salame
Léa Salamé especially did not understand that her employer decided to choose this specific extract to tease her interview with Carlos Ghosn
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12/12 –
Lea Salame
“I had a real feeling of anger against France Inter. It was unfair to summarize my interview with this excerpt”