France Soir

France Soir (French, German France [ at ] night was a national French daily newspaper from Paris. Since 14 December 2011, only appeared in an online edition, July 23, 2012 was the dissolution of the company.

History

France Soir was founded in November 1944 after the German occupation of the country by Robert Salmon and Philippe Viannay, two founders of the Resistance group Défense de la France. Pierre Lazareff was head of its historical divisions. She was successful as a successor Journal of the spread in large numbers in the underground newspaper the occupation Défense de la France, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, reaching at their best with a circulation of two million.

Thus France Soir was the then largest French daily newspaper. For a quarter of a century the popular foil made tabloid lost but steadily readers and money. Recently made ​​the sheet the great competition from free newspapers like 20 minutes and Metro to create. Most recently, France Soir sold only 36,000 times a day. October 27, 2005 had to be declared bankrupt.

In insolvency proceedings against " France Soir ", a commercial court in the northern French city of Lille adopted on 12 April 2006, the takeover bid of businessman Jean -Pierre Brunois and the journalist Olivier Rey. The court preferred the offer that the Russian media group and Moscow News that the entrepreneur Jean- Raphael Fernandez. Moscow News wanted to invest ten million euro and in the following year to terminate any employee. The chief of Moscow News, Arcadi Gaydamak, the Israeli, but was suspected by the French authorities to be involved in arms deals with Angola and to want to wash black money in " France Soir ". Therefore, he was threatened with an international arrest warrant. The council had approved the takeover but through him. Insolvency proceedings were moved from Bobigny near Paris to Lille, after the former owner, the Franco-Egyptian businessman Raymond Lakah had requested the dismissal of the first Commercial Court of partiality.

There was a restart. The new owners wanted from " France Soir " a tabloid with a "shock formula ," according to Rey modeled after the British tabloid newspaper "The Daily Mirror" or "The Sun" make. The staff announced at that time that they would resist the offer of Brunois and Rey strikes, especially since only 51 should keep their jobs of the 115 employees.

In October 2011 it was announced that the print edition of " France Soir " is to be set in December 2011. The newspaper was published after online only.

On 23 July 2012, the company was dissolved.

Mohammed cartoons

On 1 February 2006 the newspaper was much talked about by the only French newspaper twelve controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in the Danish journal Jyllands-Posten reprinted to set a sign for freedom of expression by its own account. " Oui, le droit de caricaturer on a Dieu " ( " Yes, you have the right to caricature God " ) it said this on the front page. The cartoons had led to massive protests by Muslims against the Jyllands-Posten and Denmark in general. Because reprinting dismissed Raymond Lakah, the Egyptian -born owner of the Catholic newspaper, the same day the head of the sheet, Jacques Lefranc. The next day the headline in the newspaper, " Au secours, Voltaire, ils sont fous devenus " ( "Help, Voltaire, they 've gone mad ").

Employee

Known employees, past and present

The Sun (United Kingdom) Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy Jean-Pierre Thiollet
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