"I find it unfair, quite despicable" : Cécile Delarue, alleged victim, shocked by Patrick Poivre D’Arvor’s complaint

Thursday, April 28, France 2 is publishing a new “Complément d’Enquête” devoted to the Patrick Poivre d’Arvor event and titled “PPDA: Fall of the Untouchables”. In this issue, a new woman complains about raping the former TF1 television news star. But in a twist yesterday, Wednesday, April 27, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor’s attorney, Philippe Naepels, confirmed Tuesday that he had filed a “slanderous charge” against 16 women who accused the journalist of sexual harassment or sexual violence.

In the document, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor vehemently attacks these 16 complainants. “No credit can be given to these sixteen women in pursuit of fame, journalists or writers, and/or a former colleague, a friend, or even the feminists of the last hour who came to support a simple activist for the women’s cause.” , can we read

On Thursday, April 28, one of these 16 complainants, Cécile Delarue, was Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine’s guest at “C à vous” at France 5. For him, this is an opportunity to return to his latest PPDA complaint. “I want to receive them safely and peacefully. This complaint was noticed in the media. I didn’t want to read what was said about us. It bothers me, it touches me, it moves me. I find that unfair, quite despicable. The accusation is ridiculous.” He gave his first reaction. And to continue: “If I understood correctly, the idea is that we’re going to be a conspiracy of 16 women who don’t know each other, who got together to lie and say terrible things. You saw my testimony, even if it meant lying, I should have lied more, we are terrible organizers…“

The journalist and author responsible for the communications of the #MeTooMedias collective concluded:Before I testified, I hesitated, tweeting first because there were lies, especially by Jean-Pierre Pernaut, that pissed me off. (…) All these women had a professional, personal cost… There was a trauma going back.to”.

LT