“It is an understatement to say that your hearing is eagerly awaited”, underlines Senator Laurent Lafon when he opens, this Wednesday at 4:45 p.m., the session of the commission of inquiry into media concentration with Vincent Bolloré. The exchange, sometimes good-natured, sometimes lively, will last two hours. He is part of a large program of auditions which…
“It is an understatement to say that your hearing is eagerly awaited”, underlines Senator Laurent Lafon when he opens, this Wednesday at 4:45 p.m., the session of the commission of inquiry into media concentration with Vincent Bolloré. The exchange, sometimes good-natured, sometimes lively, will last two hours. He is part of a large program of auditions which will see, this Thursday, Bernard Arnault succeed Vincent Bolloré. But the pilot of Vivendi being both very criticized and sparing of his public speech, he is, of all the personalities summoned, the one who arouses the most curiosity.
“Hey, it’s us too”
“Very directive management”, “lack of pluralism, positioning flirting with the far right” of CNews, complacency with Éric Zemmour despite the convictions by the courts, the senators did not fail to spell out the grievances against the Breton industrialist . How did he defend himself? Mainly by ensuring that information and politics are “absolutely insignificant” activities at the scale of his group.
“I can talk to you about cinema, sport, series, music, the international. But information, I don’t know much about it, it’s not my subject, “he said, assuring that his strategy is” only economic, in no way political “. Vincent Bolloré seemed to constantly minimize his influence. He has repeatedly presented himself as “very small” compared to the giants Apple and Amazon, and has gone so far as to assert that today, as a “simple adviser”, he no longer has “any power, any role” at Vivendi.
A formula will stand out: “The group is so vast that you can write everything and its opposite on my ideas. That, for example, I am woke or deconstructionist: “iel”, it is in the Petit Robert, that we publish”. If he never commented on the thought of Éric Zemmour, he denied having “daily” links with the journalist. “I ate with him once. Since he was a candidate, we took him out of CNews … but he is on BFM every night! »