Ménès case: "To kiss someone by force is a sexual assault", says the ministry

"Kissing someone by force / by surprise, 'grabbing his buttocks' ... On a TV set" is a "sexual assault punishable by law", recalled Monday Camille Chaize, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, alluding to Canal + columnist Pierre Ménès.

The star columnist of Canal +, who is not mentioned by name in Camille Chaize's tweet, has been questioned since the release of the documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist".

Canal + accused of censoring a documentary on sexism in sports journalism

"Kissing someone by force / by surprise, 'grabbing their buttocks' ... on a TV set, in transport, at work, whatever the context, it is a sexual assault punishable by law, "Camille Chaize tweeted on her spokesperson account, adding the hashtags" JeNeSuisPasUneSalope "and" RienLaîtrePasser "to her message.

In the tweet also an insert which recalls: "Sexual assault punishable by 5 years of imprisonment and a 75,000 euros fine". 

Kissing someone by force / by surprise, "grabbing their buttocks" ... On a TV set, in transport, at work, whatever the context, it is a sexual assault punishable by law .

#JeNeSuisPasUneSalope

Pour ne #RienLgezPasser

➡️https: //t.co/29GLdVCcrHpic.twitter.com/kQnB2wLUTE

- Spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior (@PorteParoleMI) March 22, 2021

Canal + was accused Monday of having censored a documentary on sexism in sports journalism to protect its star columnist, the passages implicating him in two cases of sexual assault having been cut from the final version, according to the site

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Scenes nevertheless turn on social networks where we see Pierre Ménès forcibly kissing Francesca Antoniotti in the program "Touche pas à mon sport" on D8 (ex-C8), in 2016. Another scene, dating from 2011, also shows Pierre Ménès kissing by force one of his sisters, Isabelle Moreau, during the 100th of the Canal Football Club.

"Me, if my management has nothing to say, I have nothing to say either"

The site

assures that in August 2016, at the end of a program from the "Canal Football Club", the columnist would have lifted Marie Portolano's skirt before grabbing her buttocks, "off the air but in front of the public ".

Reacting to the

, Pierre Ménès declared: "Me, if my management has nothing to say, I have nothing to say either. Especially if it is to accuse me of bullshit and shit".

Unreachable Monday, Marie Portolano tweeted on Sunday "The essential thing is the voice of women which has been fully respected by Canal +. Please do not forget it".