Almost thirty years later, with hindsight, she evokes “An industrialized system, which must be told”. No way to escape it, according to her: “To all the girls in the editorial staff, he would ask: ‘Are you in a relationship, are you faithful?” It even became his nickname. “ At the time, in the early 1990s, the young journalist could not verbalize what she now presents as a sort of fatality. “It was unthinkable not to go to the pan, but just as impossible to say. Me, I did not say it, I knew very well that if I said something, there was such an imbalance that I would be the whore and him the seducer. “
In her case, she testifies to World, it happened “At his place in Neuilly [Hauts-de-Seine]. A little blow quickly done badly, really the troussage of a servant and I was the good one ”. Was she consenting? “I gave in. But I clenched my teeth, and stifled my tears. It was really humiliating. I had no choice, otherwise I was no longer working. When I wanted our collaboration to stop, he was annoyed and cruel, and went to tell all the editorial staff that I was bad. “
Today, Hélène Devynck speaks. In his name. At 54, she is an experienced journalist. After helping to found LCI, she featured the channel’s 24-hour news broadcasts. Then experienced competition, in 2010, at i-Télé, the ancestor of CNews. It is long, the road traveled since her first steps at TF1 at the end of the 1980s. Within the first channel, she was one of Patrick Poivre d’Arvor’s assistants, “In 1991-1993”. It is with him that she says she is “Passed to the pan”.
So, when investigators from the People’s Delinquency Repression Squad (BRDP) summoned her on Wednesday March 10, she came to the meeting. No more question for her to be silent.
Common points in the testimonials
In recent weeks, several women who knew the former star presenter have been interviewed by the police. Justice is investigating, following a complaint filed earlier this year by Florence Porcel for rapes against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, and whose existence has been revealed by The Parisian, February 18. Seized, the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office entrusted the investigations to the BRDP.
At least three women, according to our information, described to investigators facts akin to rape. Others recounted events that could be characterized as sexual assault or harassment. The world has collected a dozen testimonials describing the PPDA system as repetitive ” abuse of dominant position “.
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