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Public figures write letter in support of strike at Le Journal du Dimanche in protest at appointment of Geoffroy LejeuneActors, novelists and leftwing politicians have joined support for major strike action at France’s flagship Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, in protest at the appointment ahead of its acquisition by the billionaire industrialist Vincent Bolloré of an editor-in-chief who previously worked for a far-right magazine.“For the first time in France since the liberation, a large national media will be run by a far-right personality. This is a dangerous precedent which concerns us all,” read an open-letter to Le Monde signed by hundreds of figures including the rapper and producer JoeyStarr, the actors Dénis Ménochet and Mathieu Amalric, the film-maker Nicole Garcia, as well as historians, academics and many politicians on the left, including the Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo. Continue reading...