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Rumors have long haunted Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, known as PPDA, the famous French television news anchor who worked for more than two decades on the TF1 channel. His reputation began to be jeopardized with the rise of the #Metoo movement. But they were just rumors.
Now the writer and actress Florence Porcel has denounced him for an alleged crime of rape. The Nanterre (Paris) Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed, how do you publish France24, that an investigation has been opened.
Porcel published a book on January 6, Pandorini, in which it tells the story of a 19-year-old girl who wanted to be an actress and who suffered sexual abuse between 2004 and 2009 by an actor 40 years older.
Finally, the writer confirmed that it was not fiction, it was a true story, hers, until the newspaper The Parisian put on the table the name of the alleged perpetrator: Patrick Poivre d’Arvor.
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“Pandorini is the common story of an inexperienced young woman who has a bad encounter. Except that the meeting in question is with one of the most famous men in France. We are not going to lie to each other: it is my story ”.
According to the actress’s account, Porcel would have met the presenter when she was studying at the Sorbonne to make her way as a novelist, and decided to send him some manuscripts, taking advantage of the fact that he also publishes.
The presenter, then, would have invited him to attend a news program. At the end of the program, they both went to his office, and Poivre d’Arvor would have jumped on him. According to the actress, who was then a virgin, she did not resist paralyzed by panic at the orders of a powerful man. After years of dependency, and after he had forced her to perform oral sex, the relationship ended.
For his part, the journalist has assured in a statement that the relations with the actress were “consensual” and that he keeps letters that would show that there was never coercion. In fact, he has described Porcel’s story as a strategy to promote his novel, according to the French media.
The writer assures that she has needed to attend psychotherapy sessions for ten years to overcome it, and that it has not been easy to get rid of the feeling of “disgust”.
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