new woman files rape complaint against former presenter

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France 3

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B. Delombre, Additional investigation, R. Laurentin – France 3

France Televisions

Thursday, April 28, the magazine Complément d’Enquête, broadcast on France 2, broadcast testimonies from women who overwhelm Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, including one who accuses him of rape.

Patrick Poivre d’Arvor is of new accused of rape. The journalists of the France 2 magazine, “Complément d’Enquête”, broadcast Thursday, April 28, collected another testimony, that of a woman who claims to have been one of his victims. Then a young journalist at TF1, she claims to have been attacked by the presenter. One evening in February 1995, he invites her in his office after the newspaper. That’s when the facts would have occurred.

He gets up, he goes around his huge office, he comes to sit next to me, he puts his hands on my shoulders and he kisses me.says the woman, who specifies that “ [son] body was there, but [elle] was not[t] no longer there“. He took off my pants, he took off his pants and he raped me”she continues. A few days later, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor again tried to attack him. She has just filed a complaint for rape against the presenter. One more testimony against the former star of French television. In recent months, 16 other women had already filed a complaint against him. The facts being prescribed, the investigation was closed, but on Wednesday April 27, the 74-year-old journalist indicated that he was going to sue these complainants for slanderous denunciation.


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