PPDA case: Already targeted by 10 complaints, three new women have taken legal action

The inquiry into allegations of rape and sexual assault against PPDA was relaunched on Wednesday 19 April.

The PPDA case is clearly far from over. Second’French media agency, three new women have taken legal action, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday 19 April. The rape and sexual assault investigation against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor was therefore relaunched, more than three years after its opening, in December 2021.

Thus, 19 women have already been heard and 10 have filed a complaint. A first investigation was opened in February 2021, after the complaint of the author Florence Porcel, who accuses PPDA of having forced her to have sex in 2004 and to perform oral sex in 2009. Subsequently, another 23 women had then testified for rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment.

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The proceeding was closed due to the statute of limitations of the facts presented. The perpetrator filed a complaint again, this time filing a civil action. In May 2022, 20 alleged victims of the presenter had testified with their faces uncovered in a program of Mediapart. Chilling stories, where many of them evoked for the first time what PPDA was going to do to them.

For her part, the former presenter of 20H of TF1, who had filed a defamation complaint against The Parisianafter the newspaper published the testimony of the withdrawn journalist and author Florence Porcel, announced her lawyer Philippe Naepels to franceinfo. a” strategy according to journalist Hélène Devynck, an alleged victim of PPDA. ” The Rapists’ Strategy: Scaring to Silence…and Then Fighting Not to Confront Our Testimony“he tweeted.

Despite this, 16 prosecutions for slanderous claims against plaintiffs and one for libel against the newspaper Publication are still ongoing, recalls the journalist.