The journalist of LCI, who stood out with Yann Barthès in “Le Petit Journal” then to “Daily”, distinguished himself by launching the subject of jet trips of PSG.
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The images have been widely commented: questioned by Paul Larrouturou about the possibility for PSG to make some of his train trips and not in jet, Kylian Mbappé collapses with laughter. As for his coach, Christophe Galtier, he ironically replied that the club is studying the possibility of going to the matches in “Char sur sail”. The controversy quickly increases that the journalist was far from anticipating. He who attended his first PSG press conference wanted to raise “an interesting, legitimate” question. “Those who do not like me think that I want to make the buzz, sighs Paul Larrouturou, who intervenes every morning on LCI. But I just try to do my job by asking the questions that people can ask themselves.”
a regular of annoying questions
See you almost 36 years old, Paul Larroutourou is not at his first glance. In May 2013, already, he attended Europe 1 to a press conference by François Hollande. “Why did you choose not to express yourself personally on Twitter?” He questions, stuck in a shirt with the disproportionate collar. “What a question!” Retorts the president, mocking, who had abandoned social networks after his accession to the Elysée. “It was violent,” recalls Larrouturou. All the colleagues had screwed up my mouth. “Not enough to discourage him. A few months later, he wrote to Yann Barthès, who had the sequence in “Le Petit Journal”, presenting himself as “the young journalist you have imitated with a dog collar”. A coffee later, he was hired and will work with the presenter for seven years before joining LCI in the summer of 2021.
“People see him above all as a cheeky journalist, but he also has a real political sense,” comments Ruth Elkrief, who has been working with him in LCI for a year. Born in Bayonne in 1986 in a family of teachers, he grew up with France Inter, Télérama and Le Canard Enchaîné, which his grandfather read him. At the table, we talk about life, death, love … and a lot of politics. She becomes his “only passion”, which he satisfies by devouring books on the subject. A year ago, this cousin distant from the European deputy Pierre Larrouturou signed Elysée Confidential (Flammarion), an investigation into Emmanuel Macron seen by those who rubbed shoulders. “I was often asked what he looked like and I couldn’t explain it … Now I say that the answer is in the book!”
a land reporter often attacked
In a portrait, Vanity Fair compared it to a “punching-ball”. It is true that, blows, he cashed: mistreated by the umbrella of Bruno Gollnisch, in 2015, and ejected manu militari from the Salon des Entrepreneurs during a trip to Marine Le Pen, in 2017, he was also attacked with his Cameraman by Francis Lalanne. From the side of the road, where he tends his microphone to various personalities, he saw the greater hostility towards journalists, “at best a misunderstanding, at worst resignation and the feeling that we are all rotten “. “What shocks me the most, he adds, is the fact that dialogue has become impossible with some.” A sequence, where it is taken to task by antiVAX activists who deal with “parrot”, can testify.