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"It is not the content of these podcasts that poses a problem, it is their author": the new left-wing municipality of Marseille has removed from the city's website the interventions of historian Franck Ferrand, whom it accuses to carry “values ​​that divide”.

"I do not want the city of Marseille to be associated with this character, who carries values ​​that divide," Jean-Marc Coppola, deputy in charge of culture, said on Friday, confirming information from the Marsactu site.

Castigating the "excesses [of Franck Ferrand] for a few weeks and months", the elected Communist, in office since the victory of the union list of the left of the Marseillais Spring, after 25 years of reign of the mayor LR Jean- Claude Gaudin, made this decision after being arrested on Twitter.

"This goes in the direction of a great stiffening from all points of view"

These accounts reproached in particular Franck Ferrand, who was already speaking on Radio Classique, to now have a column in

Valeurs Actuelles

and to intervene in the context of a historic program on CNews, and also blamed him for errors or mistakes. approximations.

"There was no political dimension to this series" of podcasts, replied Franck Ferrand to the local news site Marsactu: "This goes in the direction of a great stiffening from all points of view.

The range of mind is restricted, ”he regretted.

A series of podcasts on the history of the city

Until then Franck Ferrand was best known for his interventions on France Télévisions, since 2017, as part of the Tour de France cyclist, where he lingered on the history of the cities and monuments located on the passage of the Grande Boucle.

The series of podcasts in question, entitled “Marseille sans galéjade!

», Had been ordered by the former right-wing municipality and had been posted on the website of the city in the fall, under the new municipality therefore.

These ten episodes focused in particular on the writer and director Marcel Pagnol, on the invention of Marseille soap, or on the plague of 1720 which had affected the city.

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