It is a story of which The chained duck He would happily have made his mark if he hadn’t been the main character. On Tuesday, October 8, the trial for “fictitious employment” that the bosses of the satirical weekly granted to Edith Vandendaele, wife of the cartoonist André Escaro, between 1996 and 2022, should open in the Paris judicial court.
The former president of SAS Les Editions Maréchal Le Canard chainé, Michel Gaillard, its director, Nicolas Brimo, and the former illustrator, the three former directors of the company, as well as the latter’s wife, appear for acts of“abuse of corporate assets, concealment of abuse of corporate assets, fraudulent obtaining of a press card, false declaration with a view to obtaining an improper advantage and false private documents”.
96 years old, the author of the “cabochons”, drawings the size of a miniature, which illustrated page 2 of the newspaper until May 18, 2022, and Nicolas Brimo, 73 years old, suffer from health problems that justify, before his lawyers, his request for a postponement of the trial.
Press reviews
The opening of the investigation, in the spring of 2022, resulted in the financial brigade, intervened by the Paris prosecutor’s office after a complaint against “abuse of corporate assets and concealment of abuse of corporate assets” presented by journalist Duck Christophe Nobili, to attend a most picturesque parade. One after another, journalists from the weekly newspaper, retired or active, caricaturists, a secretary, an accountant, etc., presented themselves to the police who wanted to check whether, yes or no, they had already seen M.me Vandendaele at 173, rue Saint-Honoré, at 1Ahem district of Paris. Did you attend editorial conferences? Did you have a workstation? What was the nature of your activity? The very nature of his questions shows that doubt was allowed.
If the testimonies converge to admit that Mme Vandendaele made sure with a phone call, every Tuesday, that the drawings, which he sent by fax or email, had arrived at the editorial office, at the address of the Duck For her part, she affirms, as she wrote on the front page on August 30, 2022, that she helped her husband, reading the press to him or preparing press reviews that could inspire him. For Escaro, who joined the newspaper in 1949, his partner brought him “a moral and technical contribution”according to the research report consulted by the world ; she told the researchers “that their care work was “intangible””.
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