Sexual violence: the publisher of the Fifa game "examines" its collaboration with Pierre Ménès

Electronic Arts, the publisher of the football simulation game Fifa, in which Pierre Ménès is one of the star commentators, announced on Wednesday that it "actively examines" the continuation of its collaboration with the Canal + columnist implicated in two cases of sexual assault.

"We are carefully following the worrying facts alleged against Pierre Ménès because we are very vigilant on the behavior of our athletes and our partners. In view of these elements, we are actively examining the rest of his relationship with EA SPORTS", indicated the American publisher on one of his Twitter accounts.

Two passages implicating Pierre Menès withdrawn

Canal + was accused Monday of having censored a documentary on sexism in sports journalism to protect its columnist Pierre Ménès, 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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Contacted by AFP, the channel declined to comment.

Broadcast on Sunday on Canal +, the documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist", by Marie Portolano, a former journalist leaving for M6, retraces more than 40 years of struggle for parity in this very masculine sector, between condescending glances, remarks on the physique even harassment.

From Nathalie Iannetta to Clémentine Sarlat via Estelle Denis, many journalists have testified at the microphone of the co-director, herself the victim of sexual assault, according to

, by Pierre Ménès.

In August 2016, at the end of a program from the "Canal Football Club", the columnist would have lifted her skirt before grabbing her buttocks, "off the air but in front of the public", affirms the online media. 

The keyword #PierreMenesOut used on social networks

The other case concerns his colleague Isabelle Moreau, forcibly kissed on the mouth by Pierre Ménès to "celebrate" the hundredth, in 2011, of the Canal Football Club, a scene visible on social networks.

One of the passages was finally broadcast Monday evening in the program "Touche pas à mon poste" on C8 (Canal + group), which received Pierre Ménès.

"I will never be caught doing things like that", he said, while estimating that since the emergence of the movement "#Metoo, we can not say anything, we can not do anything".

Since Monday, indignant reactions have been raining down on social networks, particularly those affiliated with the keyword #PierreMenesOut.

The Nanterre public prosecutor's office, which had opened a judicial investigation of the head of "moral harassment" on December 16, 2020 following a complaint from his former assistant Emmanuel Trumer, has not received any other complaints against Pierre Ménès .