2024-07-31 12:51:00
Already targeted by an investigation for rape and sexual assault, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor faces new legal proceedings after a joint complaint filed by five women on June 19, 2024.
Finally
This is the latest incident in the case of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. The former star producer of TF1 television news is targeted by five new regulations for rape after the recording of simultaneous complaints made by five women. This joint complaint was filed on June 19, 2024, according to information disclosed by Release it, and the result is the opening of five new trials for rape and aggravated rape carried out by two investigative judges from the Nanterre justice court. Among the accusers, we find the journalists Hélène Devynck and Stéphanie Khayat who have already filed an accusation against him in the past. Their lawyer, Corinne Hermann, decided to defend the argument of “seriality”, namely that if the last act of which the PPDA is accused is not timely, then the previous accusations can also be examined by the courts and possible to rise to a test.
For your part, RTL It is reported that in addition to their complaint against the PPDA, the five women requested that the investigation be transferred to the cold case unit, which is dedicated to unsolved crimes, but to serial crimes. They also justified their demand by pointing out the serial part of the rape. Note that in French law, rape is considered a “crime”. The fact that Patrick Poivre d’Arvor will not be caught in the 18 months following the commission of each of the guilty acts is also an exception to justify the seizure of the cold case tool.
At the origin of the word PDDA
Since February 18, 2021, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor has been the subject of accusations of sexual violence. The case began with the complaint of Florence Porcel, and since then it has been spread by many testimonies (around thirty) and many complaints (around ten) for acts of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment. The PPDA was accused of “coercion by a person using the authority given by his position” by the public prosecutor’s office of Nanterre, which oversees the investigations, on December 18, 2023, but was not the subject of any enforcement protection. The 76-year-old man has always denied these allegations and even filed a complaint for defamation, a complaint was dismissed.
The accusations against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor were the subject of the first investigation, which was dismissed on May 25, 2021 due to the statute of limitations on most complaints or due to lack of evidence in the case of Florence Porcel. The latter, however, became a civil society in November 2021, automatically organizing a new investigation against the PPDA. This investigation extends to three other facts that three different women were attacked during the preliminary investigation, on February 28, 2024. These facts involve two rapes and one sexual assault which took place between 2007 and 2018 according to the prosecutors.
The PPDA issue arose from accusations by science writer Florence Porcel, spread by The Parisian on March 18, 2021. The author, already at the origin of the case called “LOL League” in 2019, then filed a complaint against the former seller and accused the PPDA of rape and sexual assault. The first facts date back to 2004. Florence Porcel indicated that after a 20-hour news program where she was called backstage, Patrick Poivre-d’Arvor took her to his office and kissed her by “putting your hand in your panties.” Later they had sex to which the writer, who was 21 years old at the time, who was weak, did not agree. In 2009, the complainant was convinced that the former journalist had forced her to perform unprotected oral sex. As he said, this time, he expressed his disagreement clearly.
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor will immediately deny these pleasures. But the accusations of Florence Porcel will serve as a trigger, other women have then testified and some of the accusations against the former star of TF1 news. On June 25, 2021, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office closed a first preliminary investigation without further action, mainly to the crimes ordered or the lack of evidence (in the case of Porcel’s case). In November 2021, Florence Porcel once again filed a complaint for rape, this time filing a civil lawsuit. The investigation is open. The Court of Versailles also requested, in June 2022, that the judges in charge of the case investigate the two accusations of Florence Porcel, including the accusation of rape, authorized, dating from 2004, which he was not educated when the first charge was filed. .
Following Florence Porcel’s statement against the PPDA, many other women filed charges of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment. Most facts, however, fall within the statute of limitations. In the immediate wake of Porcel’s speech, at least 8 women filed complaints against the PPDA. Most charges also fall within the statute of limitations.
Some complaints, like Florence Porcel’s, will also be dismissed due to “insufficient evidence” or lack of evidence. But the accusations and processes will increase, so much so that since February 2021, at least 19 women have filed a complaint against the PPDA, including 9 for rape (as The Parisian). Two women wrote to the public prosecutor of the Nanterre court to file a complaint for rape against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor on September 30, 2022.
The ongoing judicial investigation regarding the PPDA case involves four accusations, of Florence Porcel and of three women who were heard during the second preliminary investigation. Two oppose rape and the third a sexual assault. At the end of the same preliminary investigation, on February 28, 2024, 19 other charges were dismissed because they were received in time or could not justify the classification of the criminal.
In addition to Florence Porcel and the accusers, many women have testified to the PPDA since February 2021 in various media, including ChanceMédiapart, Libération, with many surprising titles November etc December 2021 as well as in September 2022, or even Le Parisien, without making a complaint. In total, around thirty women named Patrick Poivre d’Arvor sexually violent. On September 20, 2022, Cécile Delarue, journalist, told franceinfo that “90 women” testified against the group of accusers in the PPDA case.
Initially anonymous, many accusers ended up revealing their names and faces over the months. Some women are better known than others, like Florence Porcel, journalist Hélène Devynck or writers Margot Cauquil-Gleizes and Bénédicte Martin. Other women, who accused Patrick Poivre d’Arvor of sexual violence, prefer to remain anonymous. One of them specifically stated that he had been a child at the time of the facts he stated. On April 28, 2022, many women testified against PPDA with their faces uncovered in Further research. As of May 10, 2022, 20 of them said they were victims of stalking. broadcast program on Médiapart and to testify publicly.
Since the first accusations appeared in the press, in February 2021, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor has stuck to his positions: he denies each of the facts with which he is accused. He is still innocent to this day. Inside Quotidien show, in March 2021, PPDA assured that he would not have accepted a relationship that was not agreed to by both parties. “If there is any separation or attempted compromise, it is not coming from me.” Patrick Poivre d’Arvor also filed a complaint against Florence Porcel for defamation, “as false as it is inspired by the search for undeserved fame”. This was dismissed in June 2021 by the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office, which cited “the lack of manifestation of intent to cause harm”.
The former star of TF1 news also filed a lawsuit on April 26, 2022, a few days before the shocking report by Complément d’investigation on France 2, for defamation against 16 other of his accusers. In its complaint, the PPDA said that “the record of women’s voices unfortunately experiences its share of abuses and exploitation.” He believed that these women he would “abandon or ignore”, would have generated “bitterness that led them.[sant] to commit, out of late revenge, the crime of blasphemy.” On May 12, 2022, PPDA was removed from the magazine “Une Maison, un artiste”, which has been broadcast for 11 years on France Télévisions.
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