It’s not you who are leaving me, it’s me who is leaving. It's a bit like the game released by Pierre Ménès, the former star columnist of the Canal Football Club, to AFP to discuss his departure from Canal +. After the outcry aroused by the dissemination of excerpts cut during the editing of the report
I am not a slut, I am a journalist
for Mario Portolano on sexism in sports writing, Pierre Ménès was dismissed from the air at the end of March. He is notably accused of having lifted Marie Portolano's skirt off the air in 2016, of having forcibly kissed columnist Francesca Antoniotti the same year and journalist Isabelle Moreau in 2011.
The columnist and the encrypted channel reached an agreement for an amount "strictly confidential" on July 1, as revealed by the Team.
The end of 12 years of collaboration, where the behavior of Pierre Ménès has often been singled out by some.
Long untouchable, partly responsible for the success of Canal Football Club through his projections, he also claims to have been summoned only once, in 2018, to "take it easy with his thoughts".
"Some people let go of me in a despicable way"
Now out of his old house, the "sniper" does not hesitate to unload.
“It's not a dismissal, I asked to leave.
If Canal had been able to fire me for serious misconduct, they would not have been embarrassed, ”he told AFP.
"I did not see myself coming back to the air with certain people who let go of me in a despicable way", he explains, whereas he would have "done nothing (...) there is not a complaint, no judicial investigation ”.
He also claims to be the victim of "a form of relentlessness", "a disproportionate media surge", including grossophobic insults and death threats on social networks, in view of other recent cases related to sexual assault.
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