Faced with the Bolloré threat, employees of "Le Parisien" demand a meeting with their management

The editorial staff of Le Parisien wants answers. Two days after an open letter calling on their shareholder, Bernard Arnault (CEO of LVMH) , not to sell their daily newspaper to Vincent Bolloré, as rumors in the press have suggested these days, employees of Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui en France met in a general assembly for nearly three hours this Thursday, September 11, at the call of the unions (SGJ-FO, SGLCE-CGT, SNJ, SNJ-CGT, SNPEP-FO). A "talking group atmosphere" according to one witness, between sadness and determined mobilization, some mentioning in particular "how this potential takeover would destroy the newspaper as we know it, the blow it would deal to freedom of information and the consequences for our readers in Ile-de-France in particular."

By 470 votes (and 4 abstentions), employees passed a motion mandating the unions to meet immediately with their senior management. In this case, Pierre Louette, CEO of the Les Echos-Le Parisien group, and Anne-Violette Revel de Lambert, interim CEO of the quo