Journalist Darius Rochebin.

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Thomas Braut / TF1

Darius Rochebin filed a complaint against the Swiss daily

Le Temps on

Monday for defamation.

"He is the victim of a series of allegations, innuendos and amalgamations, which present him in a light that does not correspond at all to reality," advance his lawyers Francis Szpiner and Vincent Solari in a letter addressed to the 'AFP.

An investigation by the Swiss newspaper published at the end of October, implicated Darius Rochebin for words and actions "inappropriate" when he worked in Switzerland.

The article described in detail the acts of harassment and "inappropriate behavior" within the RTS, the Swiss public radio and television group, committed by several senior officials.

Most of the investigation was devoted to Darius Rochebin.

Star of the RTS, the latter presented the evening newspaper there for more than 20 years.

According to the journalist's lawyers, "the offending article mixes alleged elements of his private life, anonymous comments, gossip, with cases of another order linked to the RTS", and "he proceeds to an amalgamation with the charges against two executives of the RTS (whose names have not been published) and which have been the subject of complaints and internal investigations because of the hierarchical authority they exercised within the RTS ”.

Temporarily replaced on LCI

“Darius Rochebin has never benefited from any law of silence, as the offending article falsely states,” they add.

“No complaint has ever been made against him, in twenty-five years of activity” at Swiss radio and television and he held “no function which gave him hierarchical decision-making power”, they write. again.

"At no time did he seek to obtain unwanted or illicit relationships, or exchange favors of any kind whatsoever," continue the lawyers, before concluding that their client, although "very attached to the freedom to inform ”,“ cannot accept to see his honor thus called into question ”and that“ he places all his confidence in justice ”.

After the publication of the article, Darius Rochebin, who joined LCI at the start of the academic year to present an interview with a great personality every evening, withdrew temporarily from the antenna.

The TF1 group channel has entrusted its program for a few weeks to Elizabeth Martichoux.

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