Paris Match editor under threat over picture

The editor of the French magazine Paris Match is under threat of being fired for publishing a picture of Cécilia Sarkozy, wife of the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, with the alleged new man in her life. Sarkozy is a close friend of Arnaud Lagardère, head of the Hachette Filipacchi Medias group that owns the magazine, and there have been rumours ever since the picture appeared in August last year that Lagardère wanted to remove the editor, Alain Genestar. Now Genestar has told his staff that he has "categorically" refused an offer to move him upstairs to be group editor-in-chief. (Via independent.co.uk)