This Tuesday, justice confirmed having received two testimonies of facts “which can be qualified as rape” in the investigation for rape targeting Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. “The prosecution has only had two hearings of women describing, without filing a complaint, such facts that could be qualified as rape in the 1990s and early 2000s”, said the prosecution of Nanterre, contacted by the AFP.
“These are currently the subject of careful examination, in order to confirm or not whether these facts are prescribed,” he said. According to a source close to the case, “multiple hearings are in progress” and “on all the testimonies received at this stage, there has been no additional complaint”.
Testimonies that “seem prescribed”
These statements by the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office follow an article published in The world Monday which reported a dozen testimonies reporting “abuse of a dominant position” on the part of the former presenter of the TF1 television news over the years. According to the newspaper, “almost all of the testimonies seem prescribed”.
Patrick Poivre d’Arvor “maintains all of his statements and protests against the vile allegations made against him,” his lawyer, Philippe Naepels, told AFP, specifying that the former presenter did not wish react to these new revelations.
The Nanterre public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation last month after a complaint was filed by writer Florence Porcel, who accuses the journalist and novelist, now 73, of having forced him to have sex without consent in 2004 and fellatio in 2009. The preliminary investigation was entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of personal delinquency (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police. Florence Porcel has not yet been heard by investigators, according to her entourage.
A “slanderous denunciation”
Since the beginning of the affair, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor denounces “a slanderous denunciation inspired by a quest for unseemly notoriety”.
Interviewed on the show Daily on TMC on March 3, he deplored “total inventions” and announced that he would file a complaint for “slanderous denunciation” and “defamation”. According to the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, these complaints had not yet been filed on Tuesday. “This behavior, where there were sometimes little kisses in the neck, little compliments, charm or seduction, is no longer accepted by the younger generations,” he explained, acknowledging having “perhaps dredged up. “but to have” never done a heavy dredge “.
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