The first part of the documentary “Service public” by Salhia Brakhlia and Mouloud Achour took place during the 2022 presidential campaign, a long-planned event. In June 2024, the day after the shock announcement by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, to dissolve the National Assembly, the “The idea of a second issue immediately came to mind.”Public Service 2 – Front against front” will therefore be available from Sunday December 8 on the Explore platform, a Mediawan service dedicated to documentaries found on Apple TV, Prime Video, and internet boxes. “Everything happened in a hurry, because we learned of the dissolution live with the president speaking“, relates Salhia Brakhlia, we had a minister who was present, close to the President of the Republic, Roland Lescure, who himself learned about it live and his jaw dropped completely“.
“The idea is twofold with this filmwarns the journalist, show behind the scenes of a historic political moment that we have all experienced, that we have not necessarily understood even todayi”, by observing politicians, their strategies and their behaviors and then showing the journalistic work. “Cow does an editorial staff such as franceinfo manage to keep you informed, during this tense moment, which was stressful for all French people, but also for the journalists in the editorial staff?“
A special election since for the first time, the National Rally was the favorite in the polls with a possibility of an absolute majority. A situation which has generated debates within the editorial staff on the theme: should we get involved or not? “Obviously, we are journalists, but we are also citizens, so we have opinionsresponded Salhia Brakhlia, but the journalist does not have to give his opinion, we are not here for that“. At franceinfo, the slogan is: “The facts, just the facts“so, we present the facts, we tell what is happening precisely, we question all politicians in the same way by providing counter-arguments to move the debate forward. We are not here to give our opinion.
“The French don’t care who I have preferences for, they want facts.”
Salhia Brakhliafranceinfo
Through this documentary, we feel the atmosphere of absolute sadness on the politicians' side. We see a dejected Gabriel Attal, Bruno Le Maire, Jean-François Copé… Images, ultimately, which seem stronger than those of the 8:30 a.m. interview. There, they don't cheat. So, aren't their comments off-air ultimately more interesting than those they say when the microphones are open? “What is certain is that we are more human in what they say off-screen.“, she confides, especially during the sequence where the guest is doing their makeup, “it's a bit like a confessional“The example of Gabriel Attal is convincing,”when he arrived at our house that morning, he was dejected. He is defending a decision that he did not make, for which he was not consulted. He endures the situation“, she reports.
