Recruited by TF1, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau wanted to leave France 2 with compensation

It is a story that has stuck in the throat of the management of France Télévisions.

That of Marie-Sophie Lacarrau's claim for compensation, the day of the announcement of her surprise departure for TF1, in September.

Especially since the replacement of Jean-Pierre Pernaut at 13 Hours, since Monday January 4, told in the press a version of the facts apparently incomplete.

"I left quickly and I regret it," she told the Journal du dimanche on November 8.

It was a bit violent and surprising.

It pained me not to say goodbye more properly.

A goodbye that has never happened.

But whose fault is it?

Rewinding.

We are Thursday, September 17, when Marie-Sophie Lacarrau closes, without really knowing it, her last mid-day news on La Deux: “And that's how this edition ends.

We leave each other with these images, which we adore at 1 pm, the pandas.

We have fourteen who just celebrated their first anniversary in China.

It's a gift, it's for you.

I wish you a good afternoon and I say… see you tomorrow, 1 pm.

"

In the process, the 45-year-old journalist has an appointment with Laurent Guimier, a first since the latter took office as director of information for the France Televisions group.

And it's not going as planned.

The interview was cut short: Marie-Sophie Lacarrau announced that she was leaving to replace Jean-Pierre Pernaut at the helm of the competing JT.

A small bomb in the PAF which leaked into the Figaro site at 4 pm.

A new meeting followed with Marie-Sophie Lacarrau and the information department.

It was then agreed that the presenter would say goodbye at the end of 1:00 p.m. the next day.

Delphine Ernotte saw red

But around 6 p.m., everything changed.

According to our information, the presenter knocks on the door of the HRD, without notifying his hierarchy of the reason.

Its objective: to benefit from the voluntary departure plan put in place until 2022 and therefore obtain juicy indemnities, calculated on an annual salary of 110,000 euros gross, not to mention the animation of other programs such as "Prodigies".

On the public service since the year 2000, it could therefore have claimed 160,000 euros, the ceiling imposed.

Nothing prevented him from doing so.

Except that in the event of voluntary transfer to frontal competition, it is rather frowned upon to go through the jackpot, the management informed him.

The demand went up to Delphine Ernotte, patron saint of France Télévisions, who therefore saw red.

The latter takes a radical decision: to immediately zap Marie-Sophie Lacarrau from her grid.

Before a new rebound at the very end of the day.

The future recruit of the front page becomes aware of the situation, described as "lunar" internally, and waives any compensation from public money.

Too late, plan B is set in motion.

In an emergency, the management called on Nathanaël de Rincquesen to take over the interim.

And that's how end… 20 years of public service for Marie-Sophie Lacarrau.

When contacted, she "no longer wishes to comment on her departure".

Same silence on the side of France Televisions.