the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office opens an investigation after a new complaint for acts of rape

The judicial aspect of the PPDA case is far from being closed. A new investigation targeting Patrick Poivre-d’Arvor was opened by the Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) prosecutor’s office, the latter confirmed to franceinfo on Friday, December 17. This complaint was lodged last week in Amiens (Somme) by a woman who accuses the ex-presenter of TF1 8 pm of having raped her during the Cannes festival in 1985, when she was 23 years old.

The Amiens prosecutor’s office transferred this case to the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, which has so far been in charge of complaints against the journalist. The investigation was entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person. It should in particular endeavor to verify whether or not the facts are prescribed.

Lhe procedure has also followed its course since the filing of the new complaint with the constitution of civil party of the journalist Florence Porcel. The file was communicated by the dean of the examining magistrates to the public prosecutor’s office of Nanterre so that it takes its requisitions. Which pronounced Wednesday in favor of an instruction on the facts of rape which would have been committed in 2009. And this, even if he still considers that they are not characterized.

On the other hand, the public prosecutor’s office of Nanterre asks not to investigate the facts of rapes which would have been committed in 2004 because of the prescription. It will be up to the judge to decide on this point. This opinion of the public prosecutor’s office marks the opening of a judicial investigation and the appointment of an investigating judge.

Florence Porcel’s first complaint had been dismissed by the same prosecution, which is why she re-filed a complaint with the constitution of civil party.