Francis Lalanne does not give up with “Daily”. Since June 2021, he has been at odds with Yann Barthès' gang, and an interview with him at the show “Citizen universities” in Avignon, which went wrong.
And the singer turned activist would have intends to pursue legal action against Bangumithe company that produces the show. This is what our colleagues from l’Informé report to us on January 22, 2025.
Francis Lalanne appeals
You should know that in February 2024, he has already claimed 150,000 euros in damages. In question, the fact that he would have been the target of “a real smear campaign” on TMC, he said. And added that the whole affair which pitted him against the 3 journalists from “Daily”would have caused him financial harm.
Consequently, Francis Lalanne filed a complaint before the Nanterre commercial court. Unfortunately, the latter replied that he was incompetent to judge this case.
Indeed, the court considers that this dispute with the production of “Daily” relieving “rather the qualification of defamation“. No luck for Francis Lalanne: on the other hand, he had to pay his opponent's legal costs, i.e. 2000 euros.
At present, Francis Lalanne would not intend to sue for defamation. Better yet, he prefers to appeal. Still according to l'Informed, his lawyer Me Emmanuel Ludot declared: “The employees are accused of having lodged an abusive complaint, on instructions from Bangumi“.
-A fight that started 3 years ago
As a reminder, the disenchantment between the two parties began during the demonstrations against the health pass. At the time, a question from Paul Larrouturou to Francis Lalanne, had gone up in his face. Very quickly, the singer had denounced manipulation, and ended up asking the journalists to turn off their cameras. (To review the whole scene, in detail, it's at the end of the article.)
In the end, Paul Larroturou revealed on the show that his team had been injured in this fight. Back in Paris, the doctors at the Cochin hospital noted that he had “sprained right wrist“. To his cameraman, they had detected a “head trauma and post-traumatic tendinitis in the left shoulder”. Francis Lalanne has always contested this attack. Moreover, the violence case was closed without further action.
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