Paris (AFP)
France Télévisions announced on Saturday that it had opened an internal investigation, after the publication in L'Équipe of the testimony of Clémentine Sarlat, former co-presenter of Stade 2, who claims to have been the victim of moral harassment.
"In accordance with the principle of zero tolerance rigorously applied in the company, an investigation is being carried out to shed light on the facts mentioned," the public group told AFP, confirming information from L'Équipe.
Clémentine Sarlat told the sports daily that she left the magazine in 2018, after facts which, according to her, amount to moral harassment.
"In May 2017, before my maternity leave, the sports director told me that I will co-present Stade 2 with Matthieu Lartot. In reality, it was com. I just had to announce a presenter. When I come back, in January 2018, I am told: + Because of the lights and the cameras, you will not be able to be next to Matthieu +. I was no longer a co-presenter, "reported in particular the journalist, now converted into the podcast after working at TF1.
"I was going to Stage 2 crying," said Clémentine Sarlat, who explains that she was marginalized when she returned from maternity leave, until she decided to leave. "For the preparation of the program, nobody was talking to me. They had put me in a separate office, away from the editors", and "I felt like a stab in the back" , she says.
France Télévisions, which has been confronted with several cases of sexual or moral harassment since the birth of the #MeToo movement two and a half years ago, recalled that "a direct line was set up in 2018 to collect the voice of all those who feel harassed or discriminated against "and that" each reported case is followed up and treated with care ".
"The management of France Télévisions is committed to a policy of exemplarity and zero tolerance towards harassment in all its forms", adds the group.
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