The discomfort is palpable to the editor of the Journal Sunday. In Focus: the role of a Lebanese intermediary in obtaining an interview with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi by the French weekly. A reporter and a photographer from JDD have indeed taken place in an airplane chartered by Tripoli, and in which was also the Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine.
Now it was arrested Saturday at Le Bourget airport in Paris on his return from Libya, in possession of 1.5 million euros in cash. Tuesday, March 8, a general assembly attended by about thirty journalists held for nearly an hour at the headquarters of the JDD (Lagardère Group), to discuss the circumstances of the interview published this weekend by journalist Lawrence Valdiguié , which sparked an early debate.
"The wording has expressed some discomfort and it is a lack of prudence and vigilance of the newspaper's management about the circumstances of the making of the interview," said the chairman of the Society of Journalists (LDS) Alexander Duyck. Ziad Takieddine is known for his alleged role as an intermediary in the case of Karachi, a complex mix of suspicions of corruption and an attack in Pakistan in 2002.
Monday night, he acknowledged having met with Gaddafi but denied having made money, citing a "smear campaign". The managing editor of the JDD, Olivier Jay, said he was "satisfied" that the newspaper has made this interview of Colonel Gaddafi. "We did our journalism and the answers (Libyan leader) have not been compiled," he said.
"I do not regret at all for making this scoop, for his part said Lawrence Valdiguié Monday on Europe 1. "We were in journalistic terms quite normal." 
Now it was arrested Saturday at Le Bourget airport in Paris on his return from Libya, in possession of 1.5 million euros in cash. Tuesday, March 8, a general assembly attended by about thirty journalists held for nearly an hour at the headquarters of the JDD (Lagardère Group), to discuss the circumstances of the interview published this weekend by journalist Lawrence Valdiguié , which sparked an early debate.
"The wording has expressed some discomfort and it is a lack of prudence and vigilance of the newspaper's management about the circumstances of the making of the interview," said the chairman of the Society of Journalists (LDS) Alexander Duyck. Ziad Takieddine is known for his alleged role as an intermediary in the case of Karachi, a complex mix of suspicions of corruption and an attack in Pakistan in 2002.
Monday night, he acknowledged having met with Gaddafi but denied having made money, citing a "smear campaign". The managing editor of the JDD, Olivier Jay, said he was "satisfied" that the newspaper has made this interview of Colonel Gaddafi. "We did our journalism and the answers (Libyan leader) have not been compiled," he said.
"I do not regret at all for making this scoop, for his part said Lawrence Valdiguié Monday on Europe 1. "We were in journalistic terms quite normal."
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