The companion of André Escaro would have been paid for having “supported” him in his work as a designer, explain the administrators of the satirical newspaper in “one” of the edition of Wednesday August 31.
The chained Duck will not be slow to react. The target of a judicial inquiry, the demented satirical weekly, in “a” of its edition of Wednesday August 31, having had recourse to a fictitious job. The newspaper is accused by one of its journalists, Christophe Nobili, of having paid for two decades the companion of the cartoonist and former administrator of the newspaper André Escaro, without her ever having worked there.
The couple André Escaro, 94, and his wife Edith, a journalist, had “used to working in pairs», Explains in a text entitled «Reality surpasses fiction» the newspaper’s administration committee, made up in particular of the publication director, Nicolas Brimo. According to this committee, the facts date back to 1996, the year in which André Escaro, “pillar» from the newspaper and author of «cabochons» (small drawings), decides to retire, to the great displeasure of the management of the palmipede, who intends to retain him. But “cumulation-employment retirement is not authorized“, then reminds him André Escaro, “above all” worried of “get away from political turmoil to better focus on your passions“, explains the committee. ” He will finally give in on condition that his companion, Edith (former editor-in-chief of the magazine The French collectorled by her husband) the shoulder“, reading in particular”the press for him“. “This is how Edith was hired, in support of André, who obviously no longer received a penny.“, to produce “more than 8000“drawings that have”nothing fictionalfor 26 years, until they were retired in June, according to the article.
Read alsoThe chained Duck has a comfortable war chest
“It is not about public money”
The investigation will determine ifthis assembly, which can, of course, seem a little acrobatic is not exempt from reproaches on the administrative level“, considers the newspaper, targeted by a preliminary investigation for abuse of social property and concealment of abuse of social property. “But where is the victim? (…) Who was harmed?“Neither the State, nor the Urssaf, nor the Taxes, replies the Duck. Financially independent, the weekly ensures that it does not have “used to throwing money away“. And “it is not about public money as in the Fillon case“, he adds after being”severely ducked on the easy watered sprinkler theme“.
Faced with tensions in recent months, the editorial staff of Le Canard enchaîné has set up a union cell on the initiative of journalist Christophe Nobili, who became a union representative in May. The journalist is one of the three investigators of the chained duck at the origin of the revelations, in 2017, on the suspicions of fictitious employment targeting François Fillon and his wife Penelope. From now on, this alleged case of fictitious employment risks degrading the atmosphere within the editorial staff.