Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: Alain JOCARD / AFP 2:55 p.m., February 28, 2024

The Nanterre public prosecutor's office indicates on Wednesday that the judicial investigation targeting Patrick Poivre d'Arvor for rape has been extended to two rapes and a sexual assault denounced by three different women.

The judicial investigation targeting Patrick Poivre d'Arvor for rape was extended to two rapes and a sexual assault denounced by three different women, while the complaints or testimonies of 19 other women were classified, indicated the Nanterre prosecutor's office, requested by AFP.

“Three other facts denounced were the subject of an additional referral on February 27, 2024 by the two investigating judges already seized of the facts concerning Ms. Florence Porcel, so that the scope of their investigations could be extended to these facts”, two rapes and an alleged sexual assault committed between 2007 and 2018, the public prosecutor further clarified, confirming a source close to the case.

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