It's a victory for Vincent Glad.
The daily
Liberation
, which had dismissed the journalist for his participation in the "League of LOL", a Facebook group accused of cyberbullying, was sentenced for dismissal without real and serious cause and in a vexatious manner.
The Paris industrial tribunal ordered the daily to pay a total of nearly 52,000 euros to Vincent Glad, according to a July 12 decision that AFP was able to consult on Thursday.
Asked by AFP, Liberation indicated that it did not want to comment on this decision but "challenged its merits" on appeal.
In detail, the daily is ordered to pay him 10,569 euros for “dismissal without real and serious cause” and 30,000 euros in compensation for “vexatious dismissal”.
He claimed 350,000 euros for these same reasons as well as for “zero dismissal”.
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Vincent Glad welcomed Thursday, in a press release, this decision which, according to him, confirms among other things "the very heavy damage" he suffered with this case, namely "death threats" and his "reputation soiled”.
A regular freelancer for Liberation, formerly of Slate and Canal +, the journalist was suspended on a provisional basis a few days after the avalanche of revelations about the Facebook group he created in 2010, before being fired after an internal investigation.
The “LOL League” affair broke out in February 2019 after the publication of an article by the Liberation fact-checking site Checknews.
It revealed the existence of a private Facebook group called "League of LOL", bringing together around thirty journalists and communicators, accused of having cyber-harassed other journalists and bloggers, in particular women and feminist activists.
