Overview

• France Inter placed editorialist Thomas Legrand on provisional suspension after a secretly recorded video showed him with Patrick Cohen and Socialist officials, featuring the line, “On fait ce qu’il faut pour Dati.”
• Director Adèle Van Reeth told staff the remarks risk fueling suspicion of partisan use of the airwaves, while Cohen was not suspended.
• Legrand and Cohen denounced the method as illegal, with Cohen announcing a criminal complaint and the Radio France journalists’ society defending them as victims of “propos volés.”
• MP Jérémie Patrier‑Leitus has referred the matter to Arcom, which will examine the case, and Culture Minister Rachida Dati condemned the comments as contrary to professional ethics.
• The footage, published by L’Incorrect, is being leveraged across the political spectrum, with Marine Le Pen calling for privatization and Jean‑Luc Mélenchon attacking “la caste,” as the episode reinforces pressure around the government’s contested public‑media reform.