“CMI France takes note that discussions with Mr. Lefranc have ended” and deplores “an unprecedented situation (which) places the magazine in an uncertain situation,” writes the group of Czech magnate Daniel Kretinsky in a press release.
On Tuesday, the SRM had requested “the immediate end” of the negotiations initiated with Jean-Martial Lefranc, ensuring that its takeover offer of 8.5 million euros did not provide sufficient guarantees on the editorial independence of the title and was no longer financially viable following the defection of a major investor.
“Radicality”
The entourage of the entrepreneur who made a career in video games reacted by deploring the “radicality” of the editorial staff and believing that this “attitude” did not allow “to envisage a serene and constructive recovery of Marianne to date” .
In its press release on Saturday, the CMI France group therefore takes note of this impasse and affirms that it will now examine “all possible solutions”, “determined (…) to find a future for the title, in consultation with the management of the magazine” .
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