Christophe Nobili, journalist at chained duck, denounces since August 2022 suspicions of fictitious employment within the editorial staff of the centenary satirical weekly. He could be fired against the advice of other journalists.
Within the editorial staff chained duck, Christophe Nobili is not just anyone. It is he in particular who reveals the François Fillon affair in 2017, suspicions of fictitious employment which then target the wife of the former French Prime Minister.
A case of fictitious employment which now affects the newspaper itself. During 2022, Christophe Nobili suspects the companion of a former newspaper cartoonist, André Escaro, of having been paid for 25 years by the chained duck, without having worked there. In August 2022, the administrators then explained that André Escaro, statutorily retired, continued to draw for the Duck until June 2022, but the remuneration was received by his wife, who supported him.
In May 2022, the journalist filed a complaint against X and an investigation for “ misuse of corporate assets ” And “ concealment of misuse of corporate assets had been opened. On March 8, he comes out Dear Duck (JCLattès), a book in which he returns to this affair which revealed fractures within the editorial staff, against a background of conflict between generations.
Layoff of journalist
For management, this is too much. She counter-attacked on Sunday evening by laying off the journalist and announcing “ a procedure that could lead to dismissal “. ” This decision was taken after the publication of his book, and his multiple statements to the press and in other media “continue the administrators. Christophe Nobili denounces, “ the unprecedented violence of this procedure.
It is now an open crisis. Twenty-seven members of the newspaper support Christophe Nobili against this dismissal project. ” Whatever reservations each and everyone in the journal may have about the book Dear Duck […]we, employees of the chained duckbelieve that this proposed dismissal constitutes a totally disproportionate sanction “, they write. Opposing any form of censorship is indeed the hallmark of the chained duck. Hence this question posed by the SNJ-CGT union after the journalist’s layoff: “Le Canard enchaîné would he take For [Vincent] Bollore ? »
(With AFP)