Last week French newspaper Liberation covered an anonymous email sent to “a good part of the French establishment” titled “The Unbearable Impunity of Lagardere,” a six-page PDF criticizing Arnaud Lagardere and his leadership of the company that bears his family’s name. The point of the document is to assert that Lagardere has failed in managing the company he controls: “He has striven for 15 years to unstitch the work of his father. Fifteen years of calamitous results. Anywhere else, a manager like that would have been dismissed.” It claims to quote company executives, past and present, including “a former senior […]
