more than 400 personalities denounce the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the weekly

The Sunday Journal “cannot become a newspaper at the service of far-right ideas”. In a column published Tuesday, June 27 by The worldmore than 400 personalities from the political, economic, cultural and sporting worlds denounce the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune at the head of the editorial staff of the weekly. “For the first time in France since the Liberation, a major national media will be headed by a far-right personality. A dangerous precedent that concerns us all”launches the tribune.

Among the signatories are notably the PS mayors of Paris and Lille, Anne Hidalgo and Martine Aubry, the directors Michel Hazanavicius and Cédric Klapisch, the actresses Sandrine Kiberlain and Muriel Robin, the authors Leïla Slimani and Pénélope Bagieu, the economist Thomas Piketty, the former tennis player Yannick Noah, the former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin or the rapper and actor JoeyStarr.

Newspaper editorial staff on strike

The drafting of Sunday newspaper almost unanimously renewed its strike until Wednesday, to try to prevent the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, former managing editor of Current values, support for Eric Zemmour in the 2022 presidential election and close to Marion Maréchal. The strike movement paralyzed the website, before preventing the release of the paper edition on Sunday, an extremely rare event in the history of the influential weekly.

For his part, the shareholder of the newspaper Arnaud Lagardère defended the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, assuring that it is a “economic choice and not at all ideological”. “I made this decision alone. Neither Vincent Bolloré nor anyone from Vivendi was involved in this decision”assured the leader, whose industrial and media group has just been swallowed up by the French media giant and its very influential boss.