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Columnist at France Télévisions, Nathalie Saint-Cricq cannot imagine what will fall on her head.
She was finishing the promotion of her second novel,
The Shadow of a Traitor
(The Observatory) - true story of a pseudo-hero of Free France who could have been buried at Mont Valérien - when she learned that she was on a campaign poster for La France insoumise (LFI).
Her face, her name and this slogan: “Nathalie Saint-Cricq votes, and you?
We register on the electoral lists and we vote Insoumis.”
She is not the only one to pay the price for this campaign: Christophe Barbier, columnist at BFMTV, and Pascal Praud, who is on the air at CNews, are also victims.
The president of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte, immediately defended Nathalie Saint-Cricq: she took legal action against a process that she considered scandalous.
The national union of journalists, the majority in the profession, is in turn moved:
“It is unacceptable…
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