Filed in Paris, it is processed by the Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) public prosecutor's office, 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 Complément d'Enquête program in which several women overwhelm the former host, recounting acts of sexual violence.
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 said that she had been invited to the PPDA office where he "kissed" her then "tilted 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.
The PPDA affair broke out in February 2021 when the 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 conducted for four months by the Nanterre prosecutor's office, during which 23 women testified.
The majority of the facts denounced being prescribed, the investigation had been closed without further action in June.
The PPDA complaint against Ms. Porcel, for slanderous denunciation, had also been dismissed.
At the end of November, Ms. Porcel was 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.
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