For more than a year now, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor has been the target of serious accusations of rape, sexual assault and harassment. It all started with Florence Porcel who filed a complaint against him in February 2021. After investigation, the former star journalist of TF1 had won his case with the dismissal of the case. But the writer had returned to the charge by becoming a civil party, which caused the re-examination of the facts with which she is accused. A new investigation was later opened following a complaint filed by a woman who accused him of raping her at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985, when she was 23. Other women have also brought damning testimonies against her. In all, about twenty decided to speak.
But it is PPDA which is now turning to justice, with the court of Nanterre. He filed a complaint this week with a civil action for “slanderous denunciation”has learned Further investigation, which devotes its new number expected on France 2 this Thursday, April 28. His lawyer, Philippe Naepels, confirmed the news with France info : “For many months, many unfounded accusations have been brought against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. It is time for these charges to be tried. One cannot accuse falsely and with impunity.“
No credit can be given to these sixteen women
Our colleagues were able to get their hands on the PPDA complaint, which denounces “the excitement generated by the #Metoo surge“.”The liberation of women’s speech unfortunately has its share of excesses and excesses, and the means implemented to serve this legitimate objective can prove to be perverse and devastating.“, he regrets among the 43 pages of the document.
The ex of Claire Chazal who has found love aims in his complaint 16 of 22 women who testified against him, and eight of whom filed a complaint. “The slightest credit cannot be given to these sixteen women, journalists or writers in search of fame and/or feminists of the last hour, who came to support a former colleague, a friend, or even a simple activist for the women’s cause.“, still drops the document about them.
The lawyer for all the alleged victims concerned, Laure Heinich, assures France 2 that they “impatiently waiting to answer and confront him in front of judges, which the statute of limitations prohibited them from“.
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor remains presumed innocent of the charges until the final judgment of this case.