While the testimonies against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor continue to flow, Mediapart organized this Tuesday, May 10, 2022, a special program where certain complainants were able to meet to testify. 20 women were indeed present, a great first since the disclosure of the first complaints of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment against the famous journalist.
Among them, Florence Porcel, the very first woman to have testified against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and whose complaint was moreover rejected, but also Hélène Devyck, journalist who was the assistant of the presenter of the JT from 1991 to 1993 and who revealed that she had been raped in her office in 1993. If the former employee of the TF1 channel filed a complaint, she also tried to establish a dialogue with the channel to talk about the omerta that hovers over the actions of PPDA.
Hélène Devyck thus reacted to the words of Nonce Paolini, former HRD then CEO of TF1 who assured that no one was aware of anything. “The people of TF1 today, I saw them, I saw Gilles Pélisson (current CEO of the channel), I saw Thierry Thuillier (director of information for the group), I spoke to Gilles Bouleauhe is the first to whom I spoke to TF1 before testifying publicly, he believes me, he absolutely believes me. He told me ‘I don’t fall out of the cupboard’” she said.
“And there it’s complicated, because when you’re told ‘I’m not falling out of the cupboard’, that means what did you know without knowing, what did you see without seeing?” continued the journalist. Strangely enough, on April 28, Gilles Bouleau had conversely declared that he had never been aware of the actions of his former colleague: “I think there are plenty of people who were in the editorial staff, like me, and who didn’t know. I didn’t know, I have no reason to lie or hide. I have no animosity or protection to bring to PPDA, I did not know” he said in the program “Complément d’Enquête” devoted to the case…
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