Marc-Olivier Fogiel should perhaps have turned his fork seven times in his mouth before tweeting.
The general manager of BFMTV, who had defeated the revelations of the Chained Duck claiming that journalists from the channel had been fined in an underground restaurant, is this time directly implicated: the satirical newspaper has already surprised the former host by full lunch in early February.
" Rumors ".
This is how Marc-Olivier Fogiel described the article in Le Canard Enchaîné.
At the beginning of the month, the palmipede had revealed that around twenty people, including journalists from BFMTV and health consultants from the channel, members of the AP-HP, had been fined, shortly before midnight, in an underground restaurant located near the chain's headquarters during a meal organized in February.
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"To end the day, contrary to the rumors of the last 24 hours, I would like to point out that no journalist or consultant of BFMTV was arrested in an underground restaurant in Paris at the end of February", according to the director of the channel.
To end the day, contrary to the rumors of the last 24 hours, I want to clarify that no journalist or consultant of @BFMTV was arrested in an underground restaurant in Paris at the end of February.
- Marc-Olivier FOGIEL (@FogielMarcO) March 3, 2021
But problem, this Monday, the Duck reveals to have fallen directly on Marc-Olivier Fogiel during a lunch in an underground establishment.
On February 9 - that is, two weeks before the police raid -, when he could not reach the former host about the departure of Ruth Elkrief, the newspaper was directed towards the trail of a restaurant where the media man has "his napkin", and indeed manages to speak to Marc-Olivier Fogiel, "seated cushy in a corner", in the words of the Duck, which relates part of the conversation.
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“After 9 rather laborious minutes, the conversation about Ruth Elkrief's departure ended with a polite phrase:
Well, goodbye, and bon appétit again!
Answer by Marc-Olivier Fogiel shaped canard
: Thank you, yes, I am trying to take food
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the paper reports
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which also ensures that, according to a presidential adviser Emmanuel Macron, boss BFMTV seek to know if there are photos of him in this restaurant.
