The star columnist of the Canal + football show will not be present on the set of the "Canal Football Club" on Sunday, according to information from "L'Equipe".
An absence that comes after accusations of sexual assault made by three women sports journalists from Canal +.
Pierre Ménès will not appear on Canal + on Sunday.
According to our colleagues from the newspaper
L'Equipe
, the star columnist of the
Canal Football Club
will be absent from the sports program, which is back after the week of break imposed by the international truce.
Pierre Ménès was accused at the beginning of last week of sexist behavior and sexual assault following the broadcast of Marie Portolano's documentary
I am not a slut, I am a journalist
.
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A voluntary withdrawal
The sports columnist would have sent an email to the
Canal Football Club
teams on Monday
to warn that he would not participate in the show and that he needed a rest, according to
L'Equipe
.
Canal +, which had cut scenes incriminating him from the final cut, launched an internal investigation last Thursday following the extracts of sexual assault made public.
After defending himself on the plateau of
Touche not at my post
last week, Pierre Ménès seemed, Monday, to go back on his remarks made in the show of Cyril Hanouna, by posting on Twitter an apology addressed to the three journalists, Marie Portolano, Isabelle Moreau and Francesca Antoniotti.