While his trial for "sexual assault" has just been postponed to 2023, Pierre Ménès has once again proclaimed his innocence in the columns of Le Parisien newspaper.

“I never approached this woman, near or far.

It's a pure invention, "he said regarding the statements of a hostess at the Parc des Princes accuses the 58-year-old sports journalist of" touching "in the chest and stomach.

The woman had not filed a complaint and was not present or represented on Wednesday at the hearing, where the trial was postponed to March 8, 2023. “I am in corrections for an empty file, with no one in front.

I don't understand.

It hurts me a lot, ”added the former star football columnist.

The latter, who had filed a complaint for slanderous denunciation, was himself absent from the hearing after having "spent three weeks in intensive care" due to an infection.

Not a sexual assault, but a “chest to chest check”

On Wednesday, he was also to answer for the so-called “Nike” affair.

In an article published in March 2021, Mediapart indicated that Pierre Ménès had been the subject of a complaint for "sexual assault" filed in October 2018 by an employee of a Parisian store of the sports equipment manufacturer.

According to the investigation site, this complaint had been dismissed on January 17, 2019.

According to

Le Parisien

, a second saleswoman at this store accused the journalist of similar facts, which led to him being summoned by the Paris prosecutor's office for a reminder of the law.

In both cases, these penal orientations were revised after the facts of the Parc des Princes, underlines

Le Parisien

.

Pierre Ménès, he disputes categorically.

“It was in the basketball department.

So I did what basketball players do, chest to chest, in a kind of "check".

That's what we call sexual assault, ”he told Le

Parisien

, referring to one of the two cases.

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