In March 2021, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor appeared on the set of the show Daily, a few weeks after the complaint lodged against him by the novelist Florence Porcel for rape; a judicial inquiry had been opened by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office. The former TF1 journalist answered questions from host Yann Barthès during an interview that was not really tough, leaving him free to deny and give his version of the facts. Since then, 20 women have taken the floor, brought together by Mediapart on May 9, 2022. One of the complainants, Emmanuelle Dancourtlived the interview on TMC very badly, considered complacent.
Guest on the set ofEstelle Noon, on May 10 on RMC, Emmanuelle Dancourt, reacted to the PPDA affair which now gives rise to a media trial in addition to that which is played out with justice. “The media trial, it was he who hired him on March 3, 2021 when he was with Yann Barthès, who was really bad, bad, bad at the interview level, he was in his little slippers. PPDA, he was given the Good Lord without confession. It was he who started the media court. We were with the police at the time, and that’s when we were dismissed [en juin 2021, après cinq mois d’investigations et le témoignage de plusieurs femmes en plus de Florence Porcel, NDLR] that we started to make a platform in The world, last July 9“, she recalled. Since then, Florence Porcel has filed a new complaint and there are no less than 16 complainants registered by the courts.