The complainants denounce prescribed facts, but “file a complaint by solidarity with the others” who testified against the presenter “not to let say that it is” lying “,” explained their lawyers.
Le Monde with AFP
The old star of the “20 hours” of TF1, Patrick Pepper of Arvor, is targeted by two new complaints, for rape and for sexual assault, announced to the France-Press agency (AFP), Friday 10 December, counsel for both complainants, confirming TF1 information
According to the lawyer Laure Heinich, the complaint for rape was filed Thursday: a woman accuses PPDA to have violated her in a room during the Cannes Film Festival in 1985 while she was about twenty years . The other complaint, for sexual assault, was tabled on Tuesday: a woman accuses the former presenter of kissing her in a club med in Valmorel, in Savoie, in 2013, when she was 23 years old.
Complaints denounce prescribed facts. These women “give a complaint by solidarity with the others” having testified against Patrick Pepper of Arvor “so as not to let it say that they are” liar “,” said M me Heinich at AFP , stating that the two records do not know each other. At the time, they had not filed a complaint “because of the stature of the aggressor, whom they imagined protected,” added the lawyer.
contacted, the PPDA lawyer, Jacqueline Laffont, did not respond to the solicitations of AFP.
Twenty-three women testified
Writer, journalist, former star presenter of the most regarded televised newspaper of France, Patrick Pepper of Arvor was accused in February of rape by the writer Florence Porcel, who had filed a complaint. She accuses him of imposing a sexual intercourse in 2004 and a blowjob in 2009. Since then, more than twenty women have shown against the former presenter, who disputes all the charges.
Following the complaint of M me porcel, an investigation was conducted by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, during which twenty-three women testified, nine of which have chosen to file a complaint For rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment. At the end of June, this preliminary inquiry was subsequently classified by the prosecution, the majority of the reproached facts being prescribed.
But, in November, M me porcel has formed civilian part to provoke the referred to a judge to investigate the facts of which it accuses Patrick Pepper d’Arvor. These, not prescribed, had been classified without continuation for “insufficient evidence”.
This procedure shall result in almost the opening of a new survey entrusted to an investigating judge, subject to the payment of a consignment. For the moment, this complaint of M me porcel is still at the stage of consignment.
An association, baptized “Metoomedias”, launched by Spending PPDA, was created to break the Omerta in the French media.