During his hearing before the Senate Inquiry Committee on the concentration of the media, the owner of the “JDD” and “Paris Match” ensures having welcomed with “benevolence” the takeover of his group by Vivendi.
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Vincent Bolloré is a friend of thirty years. And at Lagardère, Arnaud Lagardère is well at home. Received by the senators on 17 February on the occasion of the Senate Senate Commission on the concentration of the media, the son of Jean-Luc delivered a personal vision of the control of Lagardère by Vivendi, Vincent Bolloré is the first shareholder, while the OPA must be running incessantly.
Forget him he fought footing against the billionaire Breton billionaire came to interfere in Lagardère in March 2020, Arnaud Lagardère ensures on the contrary to have welcomed Vivendi with “benevolence”. The heir did not judge to remember that he had in the spring of 2020 called for help Bernard Arnault, without talking to Vincent Bolloré, nor in Nicolas Sarkozy, a member of his supervisory board and who is “a” a Friend “, as he recalled to senators. He preferred to say that Breton, officially retired Thursday, February 17, had supported him at the death of his father in 2003 – “it counts”.
Loyalty wages
While at Vivendi, we are already planning an integration of Lagardère’s assets in Vivendi, the heir, he prefers to convince himself that the “management will be kept”, and the company will remain “listed”. He is also delighted with his new owner, and his sons, Yannick and Cyrille. “I’m not the kind to kick someone who gave me a hand,” he said, anxious to give wages of loyalty. Arnaud Lagardère knows better than anyone that once the OPA is finalized, Vivendi will have any leisure to do without its services.
In Europe 1, it is he, with the director of the News Cluster, constancy beque, who mastered the decisions concerning the reworking of the grid, also assured the boss. In the spring of 2021, it was Maxime Saada, the boss of Canal + (Vivendi Group), which spent interviews for the morning of the radio.
Vincent Bolloré himself, for example, received Eric Brunet, a reporter of LCI and RTL. Even forgotten about the eviction of Hervé Gattegno du JDD and Paris Match last October. “There is no link between the appointment of Patrick Mahé, a child from Paris Match, and Vivendi or Mr. Bolloré,” he said. According to our information, within the French media giant, one tried for several months a replacement to the former boss of the two influential titles. The name of Patrick Mahé has been blown by the writer Journalist Philippe Labro, a close to thirty years of Mr. Bolloré.