the strike at the “JDD” renewed for 24 hours

The weekly has not appeared for the last two Sundays, a first in the history of the newspaper.

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The seat of "Sunday newspaper"in Paris, June 27, 2023. (MARTIN LELIEVRE / AFP)

She doesn’t give up. The drafting of Sunday newspaper (JDD) voted, Friday, July 7, the extension of the strike until Saturday morning to denounce the appointment at its head of the journalist marked on the far right Geoffroy Lejeune, announced his Society of Journalists (SDJ). The renewal of the strike was voted by 95% (92 for, 5 against, 7 do not decide), according to the SDJ.

As stated by management in an article posted on the website of the JDDthis will prevent the publication of the weekly for the third consecutive week, unheard of.

The demands remain the same

“The JDD teams reiterate, once again, their two demands. The Lagardère group must renounce this appointment and must provide the editorial staff with legal and editorial guarantees”, says the SDJ. It is “two demands to which the management has remained deaf so far, preferring to impose the arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune”she laments, repeating word for word her statement from the day before.

Former editor of the weekly Current valuessupport for the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour for the 2022 presidential election, Geoffroy Lejeune should have met the editorial staff of the JDD on Wednesday, but the latter refused.


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