Sexual violence: a new complaint for rape filed against PPDA

Europe 1 with AFP 09:06, April 28, 2022

A new rape complaint targets the former TF1 presenter Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, the Nanterre prosecutor's office said Thursday, requested by AFP and confirming information from France Info.

Filed in Paris, it is processed by the Nanterre prosecutor's office in Hauts-de-Seine, competent because of the location of the facts, said the public prosecutor.

This complaint was filed shortly before the Thursday evening broadcast on France 2 of the

in which several women overwhelm the former host, recounting acts of sexual violence.

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A complaint for rape on the premises of TF1 in 1995

We hear Mathilde (the first name has been changed), at the origin of the new complaint, denouncing a rape in the premises of TF1 in Boulogne-Billancourt in February 1995. At the time aged 24, a journalist who had just graduated , she says she was invited into PPDA's office where he allegedly "kissed" her and then "tipped on the carpet".

"He took off my pants, he took off his pants and he raped me. I had no more reflexes," describes the complainant anonymously.

According to her, a few days later, "he grabbed me by the hair and approached my face to his sex. There, I struggled".

The complainant also filed a complaint for attempted rape, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Contacted by AFP, PPDA lawyer Jacqueline Laffont said she did not wish to react.

A PPDA case that broke out in February 2021

The PPDA affair broke out in February 2021 when writer and journalist Florence Porcel filed a complaint, accusing the former presenter of having forced him to have sex in 2004 and fellatio in 2009. A preliminary investigation was then carried out for four months by the Nanterre prosecutor's office, during which 23 women had testified.

The majority of the facts denounced being prescribed, the investigation had been closed without further action in June.

The PPDA complaint against Florence Porcel, for slanderous denunciation, had also been dismissed.

At the end of November, Florence Porcel had become a civil party in order to cause the referral to a judge to investigate again the non-prescribed facts that she denounces.

The judicial investigation, opened in December 2021, is ongoing.

A second rape investigation is also being conducted in Nanterre, this time by prosecutors, for facts that appear to be time-barred.

For his part, the former host filed a complaint on Tuesday with a civil action for slanderous denunciation against 16 women.

He castigates the "lot of excesses and excesses" of the #MeToo movement, according to passages published by France info.