The Paris Court of Appeal made a verdict contrary to the Canal+ group this week. A judgment that will certainly not be without consequences. Justice in fact pronounced the cancellation of the dismissal of journalist Stéphane Guy. Four and a half years after the interested party’s eviction on Christmas Eve 2020.
The voluble commentator had been laid off and then dismissed for his support displayed on the antenna to the humorist Sébastien Thoen, himself landed a few days earlier for his participation in a parody of the pros, flagship program of the Canal group information channel, CNEWS. “” I want to greet the friend Sébastien Thoen who did not have the exit that he would have deserved
“, Notably blown Stéphane Guy at the bend of a Ligue 1 match between Montpellier and PSG.
Three months after this eviction, in March 2021, the boss of the group, Maxime Saada, was climbed to the niche in person to justify this decision, in the pages of L'Equipe magazine. “”
Stéphane, I had already told him several times that it was not his antenna, that he could not use it to say things that passed through his head. Myself, I never allowed myself that. »»
Back at the Canal+ sports service?
Justice, however, decided that there was no matter in dismissal. On August 29, 2022, already, the Paris industrial tribunal council deemed this abusive ban, then ordered Canal+ to pay a compensation of 260,000 euros to its former journalist. But the latter, in principle, waited more.
These days, the Paris Court of Appeal therefore agreed to him, forcing the media group to reintegrate its former employee. In the Sports of Canal+. The team specifies this Wednesday evening that neither the Canal+ nor Stéphane Guy group wished to react to this information.
