of the media call for “the responsibility of the candidates”

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The editorial and information directors of several media reminded the candidates of the presidential campaign “of the imperative need for journalists to be able to exercise their profession in basic security conditions.”

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In a joint press release, the editorial and information directors of the majority of titles and written and audiovisual press groups, including Radio France and France Télévisions, appeal on Thursday, December 9. “the responsibility of each of the candidates”.

The leaders refer to the “violence which punctuated a meeting last Sunday and which hampered the work of several journalists”. Editors and Information Directors recall “solemnly the freedom of information in our democracy and the imperative need for our journalists to be able to exercise their profession in basic security conditions, in particular during the coverage of meetings”.

“Faced with the multiplication of incidents hampering the work of our editorial staff in recent months, we appeal to the responsibility of each of the candidates so that the coverage of this electoral campaign can take place in an exemplary manner”, they ask.

Several eruptions of violence punctuated Sunday the first campaign meeting of the former polemicist and journalist Eric Zemmour, himself injured in the wrist after a tussle. An investigation was opened after violence committed against SOS Racism activists, who came to protest in the room against the candidate.

Two journalists from Mediapart, hit in the head, lodged a complaint on Monday jointly with their employer for violence and threats while a team from the program “Quotidien” had to be briefly exfiltrated from the room by the candidate’s security team far right.

This press release is signed by 20 executives:

  • Dov Alfon, Managing Editor of Release
  • Jean-Philippe Baille, director of franceinfo Radio France
  • Nicolas Barré, editorial director The echoes
  • Hervé Beroud, Director of Information and Sports BFM / RMC
  • Nicolas Beytout, president of Opinion
  • Arnaud Bousquet, editorial director of France Culture
  • Alexis Brézet, editorial director of Figaro
  • Jérôme Chapuis, editorial director of The cross
  • AFP Chief Information Officer Phil Chetwynd
  • Jacques Esnous, RTL news director
  • Vincent Giret, director of news and sports for Radio France
  • Laurent Guimier, news director of France Télévisions
  • Erik Kervellec, Chief Information Officer of France Bleu
  • Caroline Monnot, editorial director The world
  • Marco Nassivera, Chief Information Officer of Arte
  • Catherine Nayl, Chief Information Officer of France Inter
  • Jean-Michel Salvator, editorial director of Parisian – Today in France
  • Michaël Szadkowski, editor-in-chief of HuffPost
  • Thierry Thuillier, Deputy CEO of the Information Department of the TF1 Group
  • Maud Vergnol and Sébastien Crépel, co-editors of Humanity


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