Less than a month after assuming the presidency of Bayard’s board of directors, on 1Ahem In November, is François Morinière giving the press and the publishing group a turn to the right? Some employees of the company – which publishes the Catholic newspaper the crossthe weekly the pilgrimthe monthly our timebut also emblematic titles of the youth press such as Api apple, Astrapi, Okapi, I like to readas well as Moose EITHER 1day1news (under the Milan brand, its subsidiary) – are concerned about the first decisions that will be made by the replacement of Pascal Ruffenach, who retired on October 31.
According to our information, confirming that of Release and of HumanityAlban du Rostu, former right-hand man of conservative Catholic billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, will be appointed director of strategy and development of the Bayard group, a new position. The announcement was confirmed by François Morinière during the extraordinary social and economic committee (CSE) which was held on Monday, November 25. His arrival has not yet been the subject of an official internal email, but the thirty-year-old was already at the premises this Monday.
From 2021 until the summer of 2024, Alban du Rostu headed the Fund for the Common Good, a philanthropic organization financed by billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, who does not hide his anti-abortion positions and his concern for “great replacement”a racist theory that fantasizes about the disappearance of French identity due to immigration. Mr. du Rostu was also his emissary during the failed attempt to take over the weekly. Marianne. “Are you coming to Bayard with a political agenda? François Morinière assured us that it was not. “We will remain extremely attentive,” explains an elected staff member who wishes to remain anonymous.
Relief between the tenors on the right
“I will not have any editorial role”Alban du Rostu minimizes by Worldbelieving that he was recruited for his “experience in developing new business models”. If you claim not to have proximity to a political party, Alban du Rostu has served for three years as a relief between the right-wing tenors (Eric Ciotti, Laurent Wauquiez, David Lisnard and François-Xavier Bellamy) and Pierre-Edouard Stérin.
Although he played a key role in the political initiatives of Stérin, with whom he maintained good relations, he rejects any participation in the Péricles project, a platform aimed at forming a new political elite uniting the right and the extreme right. . These denials are far from convincing everyone at Bayard. “The profile of Mr. du Rostu does not correspond to us because we defend a Catholicism that is not identity-based”scolds a journalist.
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