Former TF1 presenter Patrick Poivre d’Arvor (PPDA), accused of sexual assault and rape, will no longer provide the voiceover for the program “A house, an artist”, which returns to France 5 this summer. , announced France Télévisions to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Friday, May 13, confirming information from Parisian published Thursday evening.
This summer series of cultural documentaries, created by PPDA in 2011, was first broadcast under the title “A house, a writer”. PPDA did not appear in the image and only his voice could be heard. It was the last television show he appeared on, fourteen years later. his departure from TF1 television news in 2008. Each episode of the show traces the journey of a personality, most often cultural (like Jean Gabin or Dora Maar in the last season), in connection with one of its emblematic residences.
April 28, France 2 had broadcast the program “Complément d’Enquête”including several testimonies damning the former star presenter, who denies the facts of which he is accused.
In the process, the #MeTooMedia association, created by several of its accusers, had arrested France Télévisions on Twitter :
“It is important and touching for us to see that our stories have been heard on France Télé. To our knowledge, the man we accuse is also still at the head of a program still broadcast on this same group. It’s a problem, isn’t it? »
Judicial information in progress
Furthermore, the investigation site Mediapart brought together, in an unprecedented way, twenty women who had testified in court against PPDA, during a show aired Tuesday evening.
Seventeen women filed a complaint against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, including eight for rape. Sixteen of them, whose complaints were closed in June for prescription, are currently the subject of a complaint by the former presenter for “slanderous denunciation”.
A judicial investigation is underway in Nanterre following the complaint with civil action by journalist Florence Porcel, who broke the case in February 2021. At the same time, the prosecution is conducting another investigation into three other complaints.
In total, at least twenty-seven women testified against PPDA in the press or in court, including two minors at the time of the alleged events.
PPDA “contests any violence, sexual or not, against the women who accused him”recalled his lawyer to Mediapart.