Roman journalist Verley paints a sordid portrait of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, without considerations for the victims who accuse him of rape. If nothing justifies that an investigation may not appear, nothing excuses the breaches of the profession either.
by Aude Dassonville
Book. “Ppda thought he was irresistible (…), he collected so many conquests that it seemed obvious that all women wanted him. Here, no place for the consent of women.” When the author of the Black Prince writes these lines, There is no longer any doubt that he understood the logical infamous of the former presenter of the “20 hours” of TF1. So why did Romain Verley went on the advice of the accusers of PPDA to reproduce their testimonies in his book?
Supported by several of his unfortunate sisters, one of the women who filed a rape complaint against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor launched an appeal in summary for the eve of the exit of the work, on the grounds that what she had delivered to the police, and only to the police, was in detail. Justice dismissed him. These elements of context color the reading of these more than 400 pages of an ambivalent feeling: if nothing justifies that a journalistic investigation may not appear, nothing excuses the breaches of the profession either (the name of the complainant will however be withdrawn in the reinforcement works).
nausea dimension
The journalist operates here, a second time, and on 414 pages, the work he had done for his documentary PPDA, the fall of an untouchable, broadcast in April 2022 in “Investigation supplement”, on France 2. Dozens of testimonies and the twenty-two complaints, including eleven for rape, against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor were worth well, seems to tell us the author, who is expressed in the first person (despite the effect of setting Self -scene that it induces), to devote an investigation to their alleged author. In fact, the vertigo that the story produced is intact.
Using the image of the image of “Prince” (“Petit Prince”, “Prince Charming”, “Prince of TV”, “Prince of the Waves”, “Narcissistic prince” …) to qualify it, to qualify it, Romain Verley crunches rather precisely the megalomaniac star, manipulative and even liar, as many archical episodes of her life have repeatedly proven him (the false interview of Fidel Castro, the Botton affair, which earned him a condemnation for concealment abuse of corporate goods). The portrait takes on a truly nauseous dimension when Romain Verley engages in the exegesis of his multiple texts, with disturbing resonances with the facts of which Patrick POVRE D’ARVOR is accused – that he denies in block.
As for the rapprochements between the suicide of his daughter Solenn, anorexic, and the abuses of which women suffering from this pathology accuse him, we do not know how to welcome them. “We are not allowed to love her daughter like that,” wrote Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. Certainly. But if appearances are overwhelming, letting the reader conclude that a confession may be hidden, no doubt, will know, behind these words, lets still a little mind.
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