Controversy at the Angoulême Festival: “The allegations seem without foundations,” replies Franck Bondoux

Admittedly, this is not the first “affair” in Angoulême. But this time, the wind blows very hard. A few days before the start of the festival, an investigation published in humanity on Sunday, titled “Big Sous and Mail-Being: survey on an Angoulême festival in full drift”, triggered the storm opinion. Resuming in many newspapers, she has occupied all the conversations between the publishers’ stands and the Mercure hotel bar, a high meeting of the little comic book world. Because the articles call into question the strategy and management of the festival by the company 9th Art +, founded by Franck Bondoux and organizer of the festival since 2008. But they also denounce, supporting testimonies, brutal management and, more serious, cite the case of an employee victim of rape who would have been dismissed after having filed a complaint.