This investigation relates to acts of sexual harassment and sexual assault committed by the former star columnist when he worked at Canal +.
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An investigation was opened on Tuesday January 4 for sexual assault and sexual harassment against the former star columnist Pierre Ménès for facts denounced by journalist Marie Portolano in a documentary broadcast last March on Canal +, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday. .
After an internal Canal + investigation during which, according to BFMTV, seven people denounced acts of “sexual harassment” committed by Pierre Ménès, the Labor Inspectorate sent a report to the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, which decided to open an investigation against the famous sports journalist.
Pierre Ménès is notably accused of having lifted Marie Portolano’s skirt and of having touched her buttocks, off the air and in front of the audience of the program “Le Canal Football Club”, in 2016. He claims not to remember it. , due to serious health problems at the time. He is also accused of having forcibly kissed two columnists, Isabelle Moreau and Francesca Antoniotti, in television shows.
Pierre Ménès had left Canal + in the summer of 2021 after the revelations of Marie Portolano in his documentary I’m not a bitch, I’m a journalist dealing with sexism in sports journalism. Pierre Ménès, 58, will also be tried in June 2022 in Paris for a case of sexual assault.
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