If Christophe Nobili takes it into his head to appear at the chained duck, Monday morning, it will be only to exercise its mandates of trade union representative (SNJ-CGT) and elected to the social and economic committee (CSE). The journalist was laid off as a precaution on Friday, March 31, and was sent a letter of summons to an interview prior to a possible dismissal, learned The world from an internal source. An extraordinary CSE was convened next Friday, in order to submit this project to consultation, as required by the procedure when an employee is a union representative. His salary is suspended.
As a reminder, the investigator filed a complaint against X, in early May 2022, for abuse of corporate assets and concealment of abuse of corporate assets, after discovering that his management had paid the wife of designer André Escaro for more than twenty years. , with no real work in return. He wrote the story of his discovery, and his approach, in a book, Dear Duck. From the Fillon affair to that of the Canard enchaînépublished by JC Lattès at the beginning of March.
“A conservatory layoff? A salary suspension? This is the treatment that is generally reserved for those who have dipped into the cash register or who have been guilty of physical violence or harassment!protested Christophe Nobili on Sunday evening. This is not the treatment we expect from a newspaper like Duck vis-à-vis a whistleblower. »
“A totally disproportionate sanction”
Before initiating legal action, Mr. Nobili had placed himself under the status of whistleblower, and had himself elected union representative in the hope of protecting his job. In vain, it seems. At the end of Sunday afternoon, the newspaper’s administration committee sent an e-mail to all employees, to inform them of a ” difficult decision “plug ” unanimously “. It follows on from “the publication of his book, and his multiple statements to the press and in other media, in violation of both the collective agreement for journalists and the code of ethics of the Duck », announces the courier. This procedure aims to “install terror and [à] intimidate my supporters”assures Mr. Nobili.
The members of the union cell that the journalist set up for the newspaper during the winter of 2021-2022 protested, in a text that The world consulted, against what they consider to be “a totally disproportionate sanction, which testifies to irrelevant symbolic violence, and which runs the risk of committing a serious injustice against him”. Regretting that this decision “risks further damaging the image of the newspaper, especially with its readership”the statement, already signed by nineteen people early Sunday evening, adds: “By thus resorting to management methods, despite being denounced at length in columns, to silence the man through whom the scandal occurs, the management is taking the risk of going down in history as the one who will have transformed Duck in a business like any other. » Contacted, the deputy managing director and director of publication, Nicolas Brimo, refused to comment.