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New twist in the saga of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into public broadcasting. The journalist Thomas Legrand, editorialist at Release and former voice of France Inter, filed a complaint on Wednesday December 24 against the media Europe 1 and CNews, which he accuses of having broadcast and falsified a conversation between him and the former boss of France Inter, Laurence Bloch. He announced it to Releaseconfirming information from Parisian.
The editorialist filed a first complaint, against “illegal capture” of this exchange, complaints, detailed his lawyer, Antoine Ricard, that is to say “the recording and transmission of a person’s words without their consent”.
The other complaint targets Europe 1 and CNews, two media owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré, for “preservation, disclosure and use of illicitly obtained recording” and for distribution “fake news likely to disturb public order. According to Thomas Legrand’s lawyer, these media admitted to having the recording. Antoine Ricard relies in particular on a sentence pronounced by the host Pascal Praud, on CNews, on December 16, which reported comments loaned to Laurence Bloch, ensuring that “everything we say to each other is recorded”. He further accuses them of having falsified the recording.
“Our discussion was recorded without our knowledge”while it comes to“a private meeting between two friends”had denounced Thomas Legrand, during his hearing before the very muscular commission of inquiry of the National Assembly. He had denounced“espionage”.
En September, the video recording of a conversation between Thomas Legrand, Patrick Cohen and two leaders of the Socialist Party, had triggered a lively controversy and led to the creation of this commission of inquiry into the neutrality, operation and financing of public broadcasting, at the initiative of the group of Ciottist deputies, allies of the National Rally.
