Le Grand Jury


Le Grand Jury is a French political broadcast of RTL, the main generalist radio network in France. Since 1994, it is also broadcast on La [Chaîne Info|LCI], a TV news channel.
It takes place in the evening on Sundays from 12:00 to 1:00pm. 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, Pierre-Luc Séguillon and Etienne Mougeotte.

History

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