Patrick Cohen: "Let 'The Incorrect' release the tape in its entirety!"

As two truncated videos taken without the knowledge of two Socialist Party leaders talking with France-Inter journalists Thomas Legrand and Patrick Cohen continue to inflame the debate, the latter is calling on the far-right media outlet to publish the entire sequence.

Journalist Patrick Cohen on the set of the show “Rembob’INA”. — Journalist Patrick Cohen on the set of the show "Rembob'INA". AUDE PAGET/INA VIA AFP

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This Monday morning, at the 9 a.m. editorial conference, Thomas Legrand and Patrick Cohen were in front of their colleagues from France-Inter to explain the video that has been setting the fachosphere ablaze since it was posted on September 5 by "l'Incorrect," a magazine close to the far right. The Bolloré media (CNews, Europe 1, etc.) enjoyed it without moderation all weekend, and again today. This short video was filmed without the knowledge of four protagonists seated at a chic café on July 7: two Socialist Party executives (Luc Broussy and Pierre Jouvet) and two prominent public service journalists (Thomas Legrand, a former columnist who is now only present for thirteen minutes a week and signs on for "Libération," and Patrick Cohen, the current political columnist for the morning show).

Thomas Legrand apologized to his colleagues because, even though he disputes the interpretation of the conversation concerning Rachida Dati on the one hand and the left's strategy on the other, these images caused a stir both internally and externally. In return, if some journalists…