The premises of La Marseillaise, in Marseille on November 17, 2014 - Boris Horvat AFP

The regional daily La Marseillaise , which was already fragile, was hit hard by the confinement and placed in compulsory liquidation, a procedure which leaves it three months to find a possible buyer. The Marseille Commercial Court placed the editions of the Federates, the publishing company, in compulsory liquidation on Monday.

"For three months, jobs are protected, the publication of the newspaper and all of the newspaper's activities are preserved pending a possible buyer," announces the president of the editions of the Federates, Jean-Marc Béhar on the site from Journal.

Judicial recovery in 2014 and 2016

While the company "began its recovery, it remained fragile economically and the health crisis hit us at the worst time", recognizes Mr. Béhar while the press experienced a drop in sales and advertising revenues during the confinement .

According to him, the editions had managed to find balance, with a deficit which went from 1.2 million euros in 2018 to 55,000 euros in 2019, with in particular a number of readers up 15%. The newspaper, an outright communist when it started in 1943 before opening in the late 1990s, was already placed in receivership in 2014 and 2016 and saw its workforce reduced to around fifty employees when it had more than 200 in 2014.

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