The editorial director of the magazine Valeurs Actuelles, Geoffroy Lejeune, will no longer intervene on LCI.
The television channel dismissed him from its trays in the wake of the publication in Current Values of a "political fiction" portraying LFI deputy Danièle Obono as a slave, we learned on Tuesday.
LCI, the news channel of the TF1 group, has decided to remove from its antenna the editorial director of
Valeurs Actuelles
, Geoffroy Lejeune, deeming "unworthy" the treatment inflicted by the weekly on the deputy LFI Danièle Obono, represented in the guise of a slave in the pages of the magazine.
"As a citizen, I believe that what Valeurs present has done is unworthy of our time. Until then, the presence on LCI of Geoffroy Lejeune could be justified in the debates of ideas, where all the currents are express ", explained the CEO of the TF1 group Gilles Pélisson, in an interview with
Le Monde
.
"This excess violates our line and our values"
"But this excess of
current values
contravenes our line and our values", and Geoffroy Lejeune "will no longer be a columnist on LCI", added the leader.
The decision was taken over the weekend by Fabien Namias, deputy general manager of LCI, and Thierry Thuillier, general manager of the channel and head of the TF1 group news, he said.
Wave of condemnations
Up to now, Geoffroy Lejeune has appeared in news broadcasts such as "24H Pujadas" and "The debate".
The weekly
Valeurs Actuelles
published a "political fiction" on Thursday depicting LFI deputy Danièle Obono as a slave, sparking a wave of unanimous condemnation in the political class, including the President of the Republic, and leading to the opening of a preliminary investigation for "racist insults".