Under the leadership of a new editor-in-chief, journalist Ava Djamshidi, the women’s weekly is strengthening its “police justice” line.
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She recently revealed testimonies of sexual assault against psychoanalyst Gérard Miller. The journalist, Ava Djamshidi, took up her position as editor-in-chief of the magazine in September 2023, after having been a senior reporter for more than three years and many years at the newspaper The Parisian. She explains that there is “clearly an editorial shift which was driven by the magazine’s director, Véronique Philipponnat” and that the magazine “has the ambition of contributing to the revelation of investigations into the issue of sexual and gender-based violence”.
And to support this change in editorial line, the magazine has “also decided to strengthen a little on the police justice side, since these investigations require very specific expertise. Particularly in the need to cross-check this information and to master the entire legal environment, which surrounds these subjects”, explains the new editor-in-chief. And the magazine therefore chose “to hire Cécile Ollivier, from BFMTV, who helps us and who actually works on these files”.
“We are aware that we are going to disrupt lives”
Ava Djamshidi returns to the first publication of testimonies, by her magazine, against Gérard Miller and remembers that “a few hours after the publication of their work”the journalists were “literally overwhelmed with calls, messages, emails, from women who said they had been victims of Gérard Miller”. “All these women returned to details” kept confidential, specifies the journalist and therefore the magazine published a second investigation with “the 40 testimonies of women” of which they were able “verify the veracity of the statements”.
Gérard Miller, in particular, benefits from the presumption of innocence. And Ava Djamshidi assures that‘”on the eve of the publication of this type of investigation”she and her editorial staff have “really aware of the seriousness of the facts that we are going to bring to the attention of the general public”. “We are aware that we are going to disrupt lives. The lives of all the women who could recognize themselves in the testimonies that we are going to publish. But we are also aware that we are going to disrupt that of the person who is implicated, which we prevent, which we submit to what we call the contradictory, that is to say that we oppose to him the facts which are reproached to him by his victims, and of which we also publish the answers”explains the new editor-in-chief of the magazine.