The Eric Zemmour case once again moves his colleagues at “Figaro”

“Things are absolutely clear between us: the day he shows his intentions, he will no longer be able to write for Le Figaro. Eric Zemmour, candidate for the next presidential election? The hypothesis is taken seriously within the conservative daily, to the point of having been the subject of an exchange between the representatives of the society of journalists (SDJ) of the newspaper and the editorial director, Alexis Brézet, Wednesday 2 June.

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The summary of their meeting, which was an opportunity to address various issues relating to the organization and functioning of the editorial staff, was the subject of a press release sent to the employees of the daily, Thursday, June 3 at the beginning of evening. It also deals with “Accusations against the journalist” published by the information site Mediapart (end of April and May 30), reporting sexual assaults of which Eric Zemmour would have been guilty.

“It’s obvious: you can’t be a journalist at the same time Figaro and candidate for the presidential election ”, insisted Alexis Brézet in response to the concerns of the SDJ. In its report, however, it invites management to anticipate any difficulties and to “Examine possible solutions”. “The manifestations of his intentions are multiplying, underlines the SDJ, in particular through the testimonies of personalities who support him in this process or who have been asked by him to prepare a campaign. “

“No complaint”

Apparently, accusations of sexual assault are another non-topic: the management of the Figaro will not initiate an internal investigation or comment. “To my knowledge, there are no complaints, no open investigations, nothing other than press articles, of which a certain number of precedents are there to remind us that we cannot without legal risk derive from them. individual consequences ”, defended Alexis Brézet.

“As in all groups that have taken the issue of violence against women seriously, Le Figaro has procedures, contact persons, as well as mechanisms for alerting and handling these files, adds the general manager, Marc Feuillée. However, we have never been seized, directly or indirectly, of facts concerning Eric Zemmour. No more before than after the articles of Mediapart. In his eyes, the news site seeks to “Impeach” the journalist in a process involving “A part of political struggle”.

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