More than 400 Radio France employees demand the withdrawal of Charles Sapin, columnist for Valeurs Acteurs at France Inter

“We suspected that the season would be tense due to the presidential context, but the crisis arrived more quickly than expected,” summarizes a journalist from France Inter.

Gathered this Wednesday afternoon in a general assembly, more than 400 Radio France employees unanimously voted for a motion demanding the withdrawal of Charles Sapin, deputy editorial director of Valeurs Acteurs, to whom the management of France Inter has entrusted a weekly column. In the absence of a withdrawal from the editorialist, the authors of the text threaten to mandate the group's inter-union association to “submit a strike notice as soon as possible”.

The arrival on the airwaves of the journalist, recently hired to assist the editorial director of the weekly, caused some of the France Inter editorial staff to jump. The station director, Céline Pigalle, who signed her first back-to-school schedule, announced the news to the station teams on August 26, taking care…