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French Sunday newspaper on strike over fears of far-right turn

New editor is Geoffroy Lejeune,  the former head of magazine Valeurs Actuelles, which has courted controversy with anti-immigrant covers and was fined for a racist insult in 2022.

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France’s flagship Sunday newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), was not published this Sunday after its staff went on strike to protest against the nomination of a new editor-in-chief who worked for a far-right magazine, reports AOL.com.

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