Patrick Poivre d’Arvor withdraws his complaint for defamation against the newspaper “Libération”

The former presenter of the television news Patrick Poivre d’Arvor who had filed a complaint for defamation against Release after an investigation into accusations of sexual violence against him, withdrew his proceedings against the newspaper, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office told franceinfo on Thursday June 6. “Following the withdrawal of Mr. Patrick Poivre d’Arvor during the hearing on June 4 which examined this case of judicial information opened following his complaint (…), the court noted the extinction of the action public”said the prosecution.

Aged 76, “PPDA” already withdrew in April 2023 a complaint for defamation against The Parisian after the revelations of the rape complaint by the author Florence Porcel against him. He was indicted on December 19, 2023 for one of the rapes (in 2009) of which the writer accused him, and placed under the status of assisted witness for another (2004), because it is “prescribed”.

The judicial investigation targeting Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, opened at the end of 2021, was extended to two rapes and a sexual assault denounced by three different women, while the complaints or testimonies of 19 others were classified, said the Nanterre prosecutor’s office to AFP at the end of February. The former star presenter of TF1, who strongly contests the numerous accusations, was questioned several times as part of this preliminary investigation by investigators from the Brigade for the Repression of Delinquency Against the Person (BRDP).