JDD strike extended until Tuesday

Before a third Sunday in a row without the publication of the JDD, its editorial staff voted unsurprisingly on Saturday to renew the strike which began on June 22 to contest the appointment as its head of journalist Geoffroy Lejeune, who poses the threat of an editorial change. close to the extreme right. The continuation of the social movement, which is entering its sixteenth day, has been widely adopted (90 for, 3 against, 8 who do not comment), until Tuesday 9:30 a.m. and a new meeting of employees, specifies the Society of Journalists (SDJ) of the JDD in a press release.

"The JDD teams" continue their "fight" and "reiterate their two demands: that the management (of the Lagardère group, owner of the newspaper) renounce the appointment of the former director of Current Values" Geoffroy Lejeune and that it " provides editorial guarantees of legal and editorial independence,” according to the statement. "For the third time, the newspaper will not appear this Sunday", recalls the SDJ, evoking a "historic decision, (...) painful to take for the teams, particularly in the current social and political context". The previous strike, in 2016, only affected one Sunday.

Even if Arnaud Lagardère, the boss of the group, defended himself in the columns of Figaro, many observers see in the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune the hand of the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, with deemed ultra-conservative opinions. It comes, in fact, just after the green light given under conditions by the European Commission to Vivendi, the group of Vincent Bolloré, to swallow Lagardère, which also owns Paris Match, Europe 1 and Hachette.

A strike fund was opened to support the movement and a petition was launched, collecting more than 38,500 signatures on Saturday morning. On Friday, the SDJ of the weekly L'Express announced "a donation of 1,000 euros in support" of the strike, adding that this "symbolic sum" aims to express its "dismay at the appointment" of Geoffroy Lejeune as head of the JDD.