The newspaper "Le Monde" publishes the testimonies of eight women who describe sexual and gender-based violence of which they explain having been victims at the hands of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.

These accusations come in addition to the complaint filed against the journalist by his former colleague Florence Porcel last month.

The words of the author and journalist Florence Porcel seem to have freed others.

A month after 

Le Parisien 

made public its rape complaint against Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, 

Le Monde 

publishes the testimonies of eight other women.

They all accuse the journalist of sexual and gender-based violence.

Most of them preferred to remain anonymous.

But, among them, the former assistant of PPDA Hélène Devynck speaks publicly.

For this journalist passed by TF1, LCI and iTélé, it was unthinkable to "not go to the pan", whether she wanted it or not.

But it was just as impossible to talk about it.

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These eight women describe "an industrialized PPDA system", organized around the repetition of "abuse of dominance".

Some former colleagues of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor speak for the first time almost 30 years after the acts of sexual harassment or rape of which they accuse him.

These testimonies are published almost a month after those published in

Le Parisien

.

Police investigation underway

Last February, the newspaper revealed that the former presenter of the JT was the subject of an investigation, after the complaint for rape filed by the journalist and author Florence Porcel.

This investigation led the police to hear from several women who had known PPDA.

Le Monde

 revealed Monday that three of these women interviewed by the police described facts akin to rape.

For others, the facts described to the police may be characterized as sexual assault or sexual harassment.

The daily also collected several testimonies from relatives of PPDA who defend him, including that of his daughter, Morgane.

The former presenter reacted with the voice of his lawyer.

She explains that the journalist deplores "prosecution testimonies" and "that he refutes any accusation which would evoke facts not agreed".

At the beginning of March, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor had defended himself on the set of 

Quotidien

, speaking of "seduction", in the face of accusations of rape.