PPDA accused of rape: his daughter Morgane comes out of the silence and takes her defense: Current Woman The MAG

Stories that are cold in the back. Almost a month after the chilling revelations of Florence Porcel, who accuse Patrick Poivre d'Arvor rape and sexual assault on several occasions, The world publishes exclusive testimonials from eight women who report the same abuse with the ex-companion of Claire Chazal. While the latter firmly denied these allegations on the set of Daily on March 3, 2021, claiming that this was just "kiss on the neck", former colleagues describe these experiences as "traumatic". Testimonies that span from the early 1990s to 2015. In the same article published on March 15, 2021, Morgane Poivre d'Arvor, one of the journalist's five daughters, defends her father.

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor's daughter denies any "act of violence or inappropriate"

Each of the testimonials describes the same pattern, with a few details. According to the eight women interviewed by The world, the journalist would have them suddenly kissed in his office, after a brief uninhibited conversation about their private life, before sexually assault them and force them to have sex. If one of them refuses, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor would therefore have sabotaged their reputation within their editorial staff. For Morgane Pepper d'Arvor, the journalist's daughter, all of this would be completely wrong. In an email sent to World, she defends her father ardently: "No member of my family has ever witnessed any act of violence or displacement", she explains. But that's not all.

Morgane Poivre d'Arvor, now forty years old, nevertheless admits having witnessed "shocking scenes" : "Women were sleeping on our doorstep, others were singing under our windows or having fun scaring us. (…) Some of them continue to harass me and my sister to get them on dates.", she explains. Words that a longtime PPDA assistant makes with similar accounts. Asked by The world Regarding these new testimonies, the journalist let it be known through his lawyer that he was "deeply attached to the free speech of women even if he is today the victim of his misappropriation".

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