This survey follows the revelations of sexual aggression and harassment of Marie Portolano in his documentary on sexism in journalism, broadcast in March on Canal +.
Le Monde with AFP
An investigation was opened, Tuesday, January 4, against the former sports columnist Pierre Menès, following the facts of aggression and sexual harassment denounced by the journalist Marie Portolano in a documentary broadcast in March on Canal +, a Nanterre’s parquet on Thursday.
After an internal chain survey during which, according to BFM-TV, Seven people have denounced” harassment “facts Sexual committed by Mr Menès, the labor inspectorate transmitted a report to the Nanterre prosecutor’s office, which decided to open an investigation against the famous sports journalist. Investigations are entrusted to the delinquency repression brigade against people (BRDP).
Pierre Menès is in particular accused of raising, in 2016, the skirt of M me Portlano and to have touched her buttocks. He had also kissed, on television, Journalist Isabelle Moreau and the Chronicler Francesca Antoniotti.
judged in another sexual assault matter
These are passages from the documentary about sexism in sports journalism I’m not a slut, I am a journalist, cut by Canal + but Then broadcast on the site on the days and on C8, at his friend Cyril Hanouna, where stone Menès had wanted to make an act of redemption, which had set fire to the powders.
After the diffusion of the documentary, the columnist had left Canal +, and had publicly apologized on Twitter, saying that he “regretted without any ambiguity all these actions of the past that was not justified”. He was addressed to his ancient sisters of the chain, Marie Portolano, part of M6, Isabelle Moreau and Francesca Antoniotti. In “Do not touch my post”, on C8, the columnist had also expressed his “deep regrets”, while considering that since “Metoo, we can not say anything, we can not do anything anymore”.