Canal + announces that it has suspended its columnist for an indefinite period.
The encrypted channel carried out an internal investigation after Pierre Ménès was accused of sexist behavior and sexual assault against several of his colleagues in Marie Portolano's documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist".
He had planned to be absent this Sunday.
It will also be the following.
According to
L'Equipe,
Pierre Ménès announced internally on Tuesday that he would not participate in the
Canal Football Club on
Sunday, preferring to take a rest after a week of controversy following the broadcast of Marie Portolano's documentary
I
am not a slut, I am a journalist
on sexism in sports journalism.
Canal + now announces that its columnist is suspended until further notice.
The channel launched an internal investigation after accusations of sexism and sexual assault targeting Pierre Ménès.
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Apologies before his suspension
Pierre Ménès's desire to withdraw therefore joins that of Canal + not to see him return to the air immediately.
The channel had initially cut the two scenes incriminating its sports columnist from the final cut of Marie Portolano's documentary.
Two scenes then made public by the site
Les Jours
, pushing the encrypted channel to react publicly.
After defending himself on the plateau of
Touche not at my post
last week and having lost his contract with the publisher of the video game Fifa, Pierre Ménès publicly apologized on Twitter Monday for an apology to the three journalists, Marie Portolano , Isabelle Moreau and Francesca Antoniotti.
The documentary
I
am not a slut, I am a journalist,
in its unabridged version,
showed him lifting the skirt of the first and forcibly kissing the second.
A sequence outside the documentary, in which he forcibly kissed the third, visibly shocked, had then been taken out of the archives.