Paris (AFP)
The journalist and host Augustin Trapenard announced Tuesday his departure at the end of January from the Canal + group which he had integrated in 2012 and for which he had presented for more than four years the program "Le Cercle" dedicated to cinema.
"After this strange year, I have other desires, other projects. I keep everything I learned, everything we have experienced, all those with whom I had the chance to work for almost 10 years. It is with emotion that I will leave @canalplus at the end of January, "announced the journalist on Twitter.
His tweet was accompanied by a photo of him with the humorous cult couple Deschiens, formed by François Morel and Yolande Moreau, and launched on Canal + in the early 1990s.
For its part, the Canal + group hailed in a press release the work of the journalist wishing him "full success in his new projects".
The program "Le Cercle" will return soon on Canal +, indicates the group.
Augustin Trapenard's departure comes as the Canal + group is going through an area of turbulence due to the controversial dismissals of two of its stars, columnist and presenter, Sébastien Thoen and sports commentator, Stéphane Guy.
Sébastien Thoen was thanked at the end of November for having participated in a parody of a program by Pascal Praud, one of the pillars of CNews, the news channel of the Canal + group.
Stéphane Guy was fired on Christmas Eve for showing his support on the air.
These layoffs caused an outcry within the group, the first representative union, + Libres, denouncing Monday the "contempt of (their) management and (their) shareholder", the Vivendi group owned by billionaire Vincent Bolloré, for values original groups built "among other things on impertinence, caricature and self-mockery".
Asked by AFP to know if these events had weighed in his decision, Augustin Trapenard, also host of the radio program "Boomerang" on France Inter, did not follow up.
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