new testimonies overwhelm Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

This Monday, March 15, 2021, the newspaper "Le Monde" published the testimonies of several women accusing the former presenter of TF1 of sexual violence. They evoke a repetitive "abuse of a dominant position."

Less than a month after the accusations and the complaint filed by Florence Porcel against the former TF1 host for rape, The world has collected the testimonies of women who denounce "an industrialized system, which must be told." Some were overheard by the police. Among them, a former TF1 journalist, Hélène Devynck, now 54 years old. Assistant to Patrick Poivre d´Arvor from 1991 to 1993, she reviewed the presenter's behavior at that time: "It was unthinkable not to go to the pan, but just as impossible to say it. 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 he the seducer. "

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She also mentions events that took place in Neuilly. For her it was: “A quick quickie badly done, really a maid's truss and I was the one. (…) 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 end, he was annoyed and cruel, and went to tell the whole editorial staff that I sucked. "

Similar testimonials

This is not the only testimony gathered by journalists from the World. The majority of these women do not know each other, but the testimonies are similar. Often presented by members of the TF1 editorial staff as "the sun King" or one "serial seducer", it took some time for some of the alleged victims to admit that what they had suffered was rape. One of them, who remained anonymous, told the World : "He stood up abruptly, hugged me by surprise, kissed me, knocked me over on his big table, slipped one hand into my bra then the other into my panties before inserting it. in my cock for long minutes. I tried to struggle gently and pull myself free, whispering that I didn't want, that I had a boyfriend, but I was petrified and I didn't dare push him away vigorously."
Another journalist, a former student of Paris-Dauphine University, recounts the behavior, in 2003, of Patrick Poivre d´Arvor when he invited her to follow the television news: "Suddenly, he jumps on me, and plants his tongue deep in my mouth. He also unhooks my bra. I ask him at least three or four times to stop, I tell him I don't want to. not, which I don't want. (…) I really thought he did that every night, that it was his routine. At the time, I thought it wasn't that bad. "

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The intrusive and repeated questions of Patrick Poivre d´Arvor

Other women bring up the intrusive and repeated questions from Patrick Poivre d´Arvor to his sisters: "He was never pushy or obscene. Always courteous, gentlemanly, sweet, smooth. But it was very embarrassing. Maybe at TF1 they didn't know he was going so far as to rape girls on his desk. , but he wasn't hiding to hit on them. " Hélène Devynck, for her part, affirms: "To all the girls in the newsroom, he would ask, "Are you in a relationship, are you loyal?" That had even become his nickname. "
Since the revelations of Florence Porcel, Patrick Poivre d´Arvor evokes a "vile countryside." During his appearance on the Quotidien show at the beginning of March, he announced that he was filing a defamation complaint against the writer but also against The Parisian.