Paris (AFP)
An investigation for rape was opened against the former star presenter of the television news Patrick Poivre d'Arvor after the complaint of a woman, announced Thursday to AFP the public prosecutor of Nanterre, confirming information of the Parisian.
According to the newspaper, the complaint emanates from the writer Florence Porcel, who accuses the journalist and novelist of non-consented sex in 2004 and of having forced him to perform oral sex in 2009.
The facts of 2004 would have taken place in his office of TF1 in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) at the end of a television news and those of 2009 at the headquarters of the production company A Prime Group, according to the Parisian .
The preliminary investigation, entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of personal delinquency (BRDP) of the Paris judicial police, "is in its very early stages," said the prosecution.
The complainant has not yet been heard by the police, a source familiar with the matter told AFP.
Writer and actress, Florence Porcel, 37, has made a name for herself thanks to her Youtube channel specializing in astronomy, "The crazy history of the Universe".
At the beginning of January, she published a novel "Pandorini" (Ed. JC Lattès) in which she tells the story "inspired by an episode in her life" in which a young woman is raped by a "sacred monster of French cinema" which holds it in its grip.
Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, presenter of the TF1 news from 1987 and 2008, hosted the literary program "Vive les livres" on Cnews until last January before the channel decided to stop him.
He is also the author of around sixty books.
Since the beginning of the year, accusations of rape or sexual assault against personalities from the world of culture or politics have followed one another, leading to the opening of judicial inquiries.
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