The broadcast of the documentary I’m not a slut, I’m a journalist, a year ago, was not without consequences for Amaia Cazenave.
I’m not a bitch, I’m a journalist, the documentary directed by Marie Portolano and broadcast on Canal+ last March, caused awareness and a real earthquake. The main victim was obviously Pierre Ménès, whose passages had been censored by the encrypted channel. After having himself decided to withdraw, the journalist from the Canal Football Club was indeed fired at the beginning of the summer.
The broadcast of the documentary also caused damage within Radio France. The fault this time with the harassment suffered by rugby journalist Amaia Cazenave at France Bleu Pays Basque. ” It started to deteriorate when I saw that there were colleagues who allowed themselves sexist remarks on my physique, a lot on the way I dress or make up. she said in her testimony, adding: “For example, in winter, I put on leather pants and a colleague tells me ‘You’re going to get it tonight’. Then, there will also be episodes that will be experienced as humiliations. They will lock me in an office to tell me not to speak too loudly. These actions started to be so outrageous in my eyes that I took a sheet and started to write down what was happening to me, with dates, with detailed facts, with these sentences. »
There are people who have stopped talking to me
After the opening of an investigation during which no less than 80 employees had testified, no less than eleven disciplinary procedures had been initiated with, as a result, four reprimands, three layoffs with suspension of salary and two dismissals. Yet according to the one who now exercises at the Parisianthe weeks following the broadcast of the documentary were particularly delicate. “There followed, too, three weeks of: working, going to comment on rugby matches and at the same time receiving calls from all over Radio France, from the president, from unions, from colleagues. There are people who called me saying: “Well, so and so called me, to find out if I had nothing to say about you, if I didn’t want to testify against you, how you were in private » “, she told the microphone of Brut.
“Then there were people who were laid off, who were sanctioned, she continued. So there, it’s the same, we give them the floor, you, we forget you. And this believe that the pompom, it was when I learned that the people in question had received psychological support. In any case, we had offered them. And then, there you go, we saluted their dignity when they had to leave the editorial office, one Friday afternoon with their boxes, while the investigation was being done. Me, you should know that when the doc came, there are people who stopped talking to me, talking to me. I had absolutely no support, neither psychological nor anything, I could have completely given up…”
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