At least ten complainants will not get a trial, and therefore no justice, for the sexual violence they report at the hands of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor.
After the opening, at the end of 2021, of a second preliminary investigation against the former TF1 star journalist, the Nanterre prosecutor’s office announced that it will close 19 reports without further measures due to prescription or because they were not “not susceptible to criminal qualification”.
According to information from Franceinfo, confirmed by Publication or RTL, the prosecutor’s office on Tuesday 27 February however asked the investigating magistrates to open an investigation into two rapes and one sexual assault. Committed between 2007 and 2018, these facts are not time-barred.
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“Once again my word has not been heard”
The opening of this second preliminary investigation two years ago followed the indictment of the PPDA by 22 women, accusing him of rape and sexual assault. Among these, ten have filed a complaint.
Among the unscheduled complaints is that of a former journalist who is now 75 years old. In July 2023, she declared to the Brigade for the Repression of Personal Delinquency (BRDP) that Poivre d’Arvor had forcibly kissed her during an evening in April 2018.
The former Paf star will therefore soon be heard on these facts by the same two investigating judges already in charge of the Florence Porcel case, for which he was sent to trial on 18 December.
In Publicationone of the PPDA complainants, Marie-Laure Eude Delattre, did not hide her disappointment at seeing her complaint rejected:
“No matter how much I prepared, frankly I find it terribly violent. Once again my word was not listened to. I wanted to say this when it happened to me in 1985, the police did not want to accept my complaint. And now it’s justice that doesn’t listen to me. Only the victims hear me, and society to some extent too. It doesn’t seem like a big deal that this man has been doing this for years. I feel like no one cares. But the fight is not over. I will continue, one way or another, legally. »
On X (formerly Twitter), the journalist Cécile Delarue also regretted the fact that once again it is women who are asking for justice “not heard”.
Same dismay on the part of Hélène Devynck, whose complaint against the PPDA was rejected in 2021.
“There are about fifty of us who testified. Too late, justice tells us. Who is responsible for silence? Us or the society that punishes those who speak out? »you ask.
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