“Investigation supplement”, on France 2, devotes a program to the ex-star of “20 hours” of TF1, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, accused of sexual violence by at least twenty-seven women and targeted by more than a dozen complaints, some of them for rapes.
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After the program of TF1 “Sept à eight”, broadcast on December 12, it is the turn of “Investigation supplement”, on France 2, to offer a documentary on Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, accused sexual violence by at least twenty-seven women and targeted by more than a dozen complaints, some of them for rape.
Rather than favoring the word of complainants, as the survey of the front page worked there, that carried out by Romain Verley, Manon Descoubès and Mikaël Bozo, ppda, the fall of an untouchable, tries to coincide The two faces of this cathodic Janus, to unravel this mystery on which so many stories of various facts are based. How could the public icon of the public, subject to the objectives of television cameras and cameras, could, at the same time, suspected of being a sexual predator?
unpublished testimony
Employing the “I”, the co -author of this documentary pushes its competitive advantage: as a former journalist of TF1, Romain Verley worked with the presenter, rubbed shoulders with the same collaborators, kept the memory of the star’s office. The journalist had access to photos never published in the press (taken during the presenter’s starting pot in 2008). He came out the repertoires of the time, and called old, and former, colleagues to whom memory could have returned (this is not the case). He contacted one of the two PPDA assistants, which remained away from the revelations triggered by the initial complaint of Florence Porcel, and recorded it without his knowledge (“I have nothing to say”).
In addition to a review of his feats of arms (longevity on the antenna, overwhelming audiences) and turpitudes (concealment of abuse of corporate goods in the Botton case, false interview with Fidel Castro, literary plagiarism), Romain Verley gives to hear women who have crossed the Pepper Route: Frédérique Lantieri, the former presenter of “Bringing the accused” (France 2), who pushed his advances; Catherine Lambret, the former director of the Practical Institute of Journalism (IPJ), who, alerted to the risk that her students could run, only sent to internship at TF1 “than boys”; A classic radio trainee, whose testimony is unprecedented, confronted with pressing advances in 2015. Women who agreed to deliver their history with an discovered face in Liberation appear through quotes from everyday.
Two former stars journalists, finally, illustrate permanent oscillation by their divergent words – of which this film is not completely exempt – between the fascination that PPDA exercised, and which has served him as a cape of Immunity, and the aversion that the character now inspires. The first, Michèle Cotta, former information director of TF1, still seems as full of admiration for the journalist as they are on the alleged aggressor. The second, Christine Ockrent, queen of the “20 am” competitor (that of Antenne 2, which became France 2) when he was the absolute monarch of the news on TF1, shows his ultra-narcissistic alter ego of the 1980s of a great ferocity.