Rémi Jacob 09h28, on 05 June 2023, modified at 09h31, on 05 June 2023

According to information from our colleagues in Le Monde, the 34-year-old journalist was summoned for a "pre-sanction interview that can go as far as dismissal". At the origin of this decision: editorial disagreements as well as a lively altercation with the new president and director of the publication Jean-Louis Valentin.

Geoffroy Lejeune, the managing editor of Valeurs actuelles, has been laid off. According to information from Le Monde, the journalist left the newspaper "with a ban on re-entering the premises" in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. He is summoned for a "pre-sanction interview up to dismissal".

An altercation with the new director of the publication

At the origin of this decision, according to our colleagues of the World, editorial disagreements as well as a lively altercation last Wednesday in the middle of an editorial conference with the new president and director of the publication Jean-Louis Valentin. "This is my writing, you have nothing to do there. You're going out!" Geoffroy Lejeune reportedly told Jean-Louis Valentin, according to an internal source at Le Monde.

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The new shareholder of the magazine, the French-Lebanese billionaire shipowner Iskandar Safa, would not have supported this new exit of Geoffroy Lejeune, which he already finds too "radical".