Le Grand Jury (The Great Jury) is a French political broadcast of RTL, the main generalist radio network in France. Since 1994, it is also broadcast on LCI, a TV news channel.[1][2]

It takes place in the evening on Sundays from 12:00 to 1:00pm (UTC+2). The usually invites a politician, an employer or a tade unionist to be interviewed by journalists of RTL, LCI and of a newspaper. The partner of the broadcast was Le Monde and has been Le Figaro since 2005.

Currently, the interviewers are Jean-Michel Aphatie (RTL), Pierre-Luc Séguillon (LCI) and Etienne Mougeotte (Le Figaro).

History

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In 1987, while being interviewed in Le Grand Jury, the National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen stated "the holocaust is a detail of the history of the Second World War".[3]

In 2002, the Workers' Struggle spokesperson Arlette Laguiller cried during the broadcast when a former trotskyst militant was evoked by the journalists.

References

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  1. ^ "Le Grand Jury : replays, vidéos et podcasts avec Olivier Bost". www.rtl.fr (in French). 2024-04-24. Archived from the original on 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
  2. ^ Législatives : l'interview de Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Le Grand Jury. Archived from the original on 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via www.youtube.com.
  3. ^ Condamnation de Jean-Marie Le Pen pour ses déclarations sur les chambres à gaz - Lumni | Enseignement (in French). Archived from the original on 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2024-04-25 – via enseignants.lumni.fr.