PPDA case: former presenter defends himself on front of reputation attacks

The journalist filed a complaint, a second time, for “slanderous denunciations” against the sixteen women who had filed a complaint against him as part of the first survey classified without follow -up in 2021.

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Basically, the Patrick Poivre d’Arvor (PPDA) affair was trying to take its course, with a discretion of investigations commensurate with its media coverage. Two procedures are open to the Nanterre judicial court: a preliminary investigation for the additional complainants – according to our information, a new woman filed a complaint on Wednesday April 27, at the police station of 20 e district of Paris for rape – and a judicial information entrusted to two investigating judges, which concerns the accusations of rape denounced by journalist Florence Porcel against PPDA. But a new front has just reopened: that “from reputation attacks”, with several complaints filed by the former presenter of the TF1 television news.

First, according to information published by Franceinfo and France 2, as part of a report for additional investigation which will be broadcast Thursday, April 27, PPDA has just filed a complaint with constitution of civil party for “slanderous denunciation “Against sixteen women, complainants in the first investigation undoubtedly classified in June 2021. During his hearing of May 18, 2021, to the investigator of the judicial police who questioned him about” sexual predator “behavior, he replied Already: “I happened to go from one woman to another and some were able to be shocked and to be unhappy. (…) I respect the women. Any woman must file a complaint if the rapes really were Passed, it is an too noble cause for us to devote it “.

” late revenge “

In this 43-page complaint Citée By franceinfo , he castigates “a return of puritanism and censorship, skillfully adorned with the alleged protection of women”. “Since the excitement generated by the surge #metoo, the liberation of women’s words unfortunately knows its share of excess and drifts, and the means implemented to serve this legitimate objective can be perverted and devastating”, he still writes through his lawyer, Philippe Naepels.

“He cannot be given the slightest credit to these sixteen women, journalists or writers in need of renowned and/or feminists of the last hour, who came to support a former colleague, a friend, even a simple activist of the female cause . (…) Regretting not having benefited from more respect, even a simple look, on the part of a man whom they have admired today makes the accused or ignored very bitter implications , bitterness that leads them to commit, by late revenge, the offense of slanderous denunciation “, he denounces according to the document cited by Franceinfo.

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