An investigating judge will investigate accusations of rape by the writer Florence Porcel. A second preliminary inquiry follows a complaint filed by a woman who accuses Patrick Pepper of Arvor from having raped her at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985.
Le Monde with AFP
Justice has decided to take back the file. A new survey has been opened and entrusted to an investigating judge on Wednesday concerning Patrick Pepper of Arvor (PPDA), the former TF1 television newspaper star being accused of rape by the writer Florence Porcel, announced the prosecution. Nanterre at the France-Press agency (AFP), Friday, December 17, confirming a TF1-LCI information
The writer and journalist Florence Porcel, 38, accuses PPDA for imposing a sexual intercourse in 2004 and a blowjob in 2009. His first complaint against PPDA, who denied these accusations, had been filed in February and classified. Without following the end of June by the Nanterre Prosecutor for “Prescription” and “Insufficient Evidence”. It is on these 2009 facts classified for “insufficient evidence” that investigators will investigate again, specified the floor at AFP.
After a classification without a preliminary investigation by prosecutors, a complainant may be constituted in order to provoke the referral of a judge, so that an investigation is open again. This is what Florence Porcel did in late November, thus enshrined the opening of judicial information.
The Nanterre Parquet also opened on Thursday a second survey of Patrick Pepper d’Arvor; This is led by prosecutor’s magistrates. This preliminary inquiry follows a complaint filed in the last week by a woman who accuses the journalist and writer to have violated him at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985, when she was 23 years old. Facts that appear prescribed. Investigations “are entrusted to the BRDP, the repression of delinquency against the person”, says LCI.
Twenty-seven charges against PPDA
“My client receives as the expression of consideration this opening of investigation while the facts are prescribed, proof that his courage was not vain,” said AFP his lawyer, Laure Heinich . According to a source close to the file, the parquet opened this preliminary inquiry because it is “important to perform checks on the facts before determining whether they are prescribed or not.” According to this source, the “wave of charges” aimed at Patrick Pepron of Arvor “incites [justice] to check” the facts denounced.
According to a statement of AFP, on Friday, at least 27 women testified to the investigators or in the press accusing Patrick Pepron of Arvor of rape, sexual assault or sexual harassment, including two minors at Moment of the reproached facts. Eleven complained. An association #metoomedias, launched by SCDAs, was created to break the Omerta in the French media.