If the internal inspection ratio made by the chain in 2021 does not exonive the ex-sports chronicler of an “inappropriate” and “degrading” behavior, he cleared it on the accusations of aggression or sexual harassment . Mr Menès has received nearly 400,000 euros when leaving, especially for moral harm.
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This is a document that illuminates the Pierre Menès case, former Sports Bristle of Canal + (2009-2021), aimed at a preliminary inquiry by the Nanterre Prosecutor’s Office for Facts presumed sexual harassment and sexual assault during its “reign” on the encrypted channel.
Le Monde has had access to the internal investigation report made from April to June 2021 by the two representatives of Canal + staff on the behavior of Mr. Ménès and the “behaviors or about Sexist or inappropriate nature or worse sexual harassment acts within the Canal + Sports Directorate “.
At the end of this report, revealed a little earlier Friday, February 25 by BFM-TV, and diligently after the diffusion on Canal + in March 2021 of the documentary of the journalist Marie Portolano I am not a slut, I am a journalist The labor inspectorate seized Nanterre’s prosecution under section 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as the site said on days. In his documentary, M me Portlano accused, facing camera, Ménès to have raised the skirt, in August 2016, on the plateau of the program “Canal Football Club”.
“He wanted to show his superiority”
The internal survey of the encrypted channel “did not reveal evidently the existence of criminal qualification facts to be reported to justice (sexual assault, sexual harassment, moral harassment), possibly. ‘Event of the kiss with [the animators] Isabelle Moreau and Francesca Antoniotti and the skirt with M me Portolano, facts sanctioned two years later by the direction when she had awareness and / or prescribed And for whom the victims did not complain internally “.
However, while thirty employees agreed to be auditioned under anonymity, “the [of the chain] thus seems to have underestimated the actual behavior of Mr Menès whose comments and acts It was not always totally reassembled. She cropped her and sanctioned several times when she was aware of displaced perspective to women (February 2018, June 2020 and September 2020).
The lawyer of Mr. Ménès, Arash Dérambarsh, ensures the world that the chain has never noted any fault or sanctioned the facilitator before the diffusion of the documentary of Marie Portolano. Contacted, Canal + and his lawyer, Vivant Antoine, did not wish to comment. No more than M me PORTOLANO, part since on M6.
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