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The report on the communication agency suspected of having allowed illegal financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign in 2012 is broadcast on Thursday evening.
The program which set fire to the high floors of France Télévisions and embodied "the" controversy of the return to the media arrives on the screens, Thursday, September 29. “Bygmalion case: revelations from a man in the shadows” is one of the three subjects announced on the program of “Special Envoy”, the news magazine of France 2, now presented by journalist Elise Lucet.
Signed by Tristan Waleckx, this report presents the testimony of Franck Attal, one of the founders of the communication agency suspected of having allowed illegal financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign in 2012, and who organized forty-four meetings of the President -candidate. An extract was broadcast during the 20 p.m. newspaper on France 2 on September 8.
In the first days of September, the date of broadcast of this investigation caused an open conflict between Mme Lucet and Michel Field, the information director of France Télévisions. He felt that the subject should be scheduled outside the official Republican primary campaign period, which runs from September 21 to November 27.
Mr. Field's argument was that the dissemination of a subject involving one of the candidates for this primary, Nicolas Sarkozy, in a case for which the prosecution requested his dismissal in correctional, could be perceived as a way to intervene in the campaign, or give rise to controversy.
Was Field trying to spare Sarkozy?
This reasoning did not convince the “Special Envoy” team: according to them, it amounted to waiting until December to broadcast key testimony, and to accepting that the journalistic calendar bends to the political agenda.
Prolonged on the media scene, the dispute has become a public affair. Was Mr. Field trying to spare Nicolas Sarkozy, with whom exchanges took place, at the same time, to prepare for his arrival, on September 15, at the premiere of the new “Political Program” from France Télévisions? Was he showing himself to be too accommodating, as he had seemed to be in his exchanges with the Elysée before a show with François Hollande, in April?
Forced to intervene, the president of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte, finally chose to maintain the broadcast on September 29, explaining that the news justified it. A way of not openly disavowing its director of information, by qualifying the rule enacted by it with a topical exception, while acceding to the wish of Elise Lucet and her team.
Already crowned with the success of the program "Cash investigation", the journalist had been responsible, before the summer, for piloting the news magazines offered on Thursday evenings by France 2, and in particular "Envoyé Spécial", which Mr. Field wanted to reinvigorate.
Elise Lucet, target of the Sarkozy camp
The case has strengthened its position, to the point that it is she who communicates today, in the media, on the lessons of this episode. “The Bygmalion case sets precedent, she recently said. I am convinced that political and investigative programs can coexist on the air without any problem and even complement each other. »
This eminent position also makes Elise Lucet a target, particularly in the Sarkozyist camp. In his program book All for France, Nicolas Sarkozy seems to mention it when he refers to the"shocking investigation" carried out according to him by the public service.
And Wednesday, September 28, the mayor of 7e district of Paris, Rachida Dati, who supports the former president, violently attacked her on the antenna of Franceinfo: “Tell me what Madame Lucet revealed in her life? What is the feat of his journalistic career? she wondered. She did cleaning, she was paid by boxes to do cleaning, to animate. » An assertion immediately denied by the journalist on the antenna of France Inter.
source: the Monde.fr
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