Accused of sexual violence by eight women in an article by Liberation published on Tuesday, November 9, the lawyer for Patrick Poivre d’Arvor responded to the accusations in the program C à vous on France 5, this Wednesday evening.
Maître Jacqueline Laffont, the lawyer for the former star presenter of the TF1 newspaper, was angry at the accusations of rape and sexual assault of 8 women in Liberation, Tuesday, November 9.
“No new charges” pleads Maître Laffont
These testimonies, which aroused strong reactions, were criticized by the lawyer who believes that there are “no new charges”.
In the light of @libe, eight women take the floor to recount the assaults they have suffered. Testimonies collected with Anne Diatkine. https://t.co/Ksr17wCvjT
— Jérôme Lefilliâtre (@jlefilliatre) November 9, 2021
“It does not change the situation because contrary to what Liberation suggests… These women are known to us, they have been heard, they have all explained themselves to the police, in an appropriate judicial framework, which is that provided for by law with rules of criminal procedure, which are absolutely fundamental rules,” said Patrick Poivre d’Arvor’s lawyer.
“The public prosecutor of Nanterre, in an in-depth investigation, considered that either the facts were prescribed, or they were not established or they did not correspond to any offence.”
Maître Jacqueline Laffont, lawyer for Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. #ThisYou pic.twitter.com/xJZrYe3GJR— C to you (@cavousf5) November 10, 2021
“A media orchestration” according to the lawyer of PPDA
She ended by recalling that the facts were prescribed and by affirming that “that does not mean that nothing happened, but it even less means that something happened” and denounced a ” media orchestration”.