New twist in the Patrick Poivre d’Arvor affair (74 years old). As reported by France Info this Thursday, November 25, 2021, Florence Porcel filed a new complaint for “rape” with the constitution of civil party. His first complaint was dismissed without follow-up by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office last June, due to “insufficient evidence”. With this new complaint, judicial information should be entrusted to an investigating judge.
In her first complaint, the journalist and writer Florence Porcel (38) had denounced an unwanted sexual intercourse in 2004 in her office. She assured him that he had imposed a fellatio on her in 2009 at the headquarters of the production company A Prime Group. The preliminary investigation was entrusted to the Personal Delinquency Repression Brigade (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police following his complaint.
Seven other complaints had followed and twenty-three testimonies denouncing a very precise modus operandi: an invitation to 8 p.m., then in the office of the former presenter of the first channel where the facts of which he was accused took place. At the beginning of November, eight women spoke to Release and assured to have been victims of sexual assault and rape by the former presenter of the news 20 hours on TF1.
In March 2021, PPDA had denied all these accusations during a passage noticed on the show. Day-to-day. Very discreet since, the ex of Claire Chazal would live “very badly” all this affair, if one believes the recent confidences of his friend Charles Villeneuve of it …
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor remains presumed innocent of the facts alleged against him until the final judgment of this case.