In Complément d’Enquête on April 28, a former director of the IPJ recalled having taken a radical decision so that her journalism students escaped the PPDA.
The revelations are linked around the case PPDA. While the star of TF1’s JT is suing for “slanderous denunciation” the sixteen women who accuse him of sexual assault and rape, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor was the subject of a dedicated additional investigation, broadcast on France 2 this Thursday, April 28. During the edifying investigation, the witnesses abounded and made statements, each more startling than the next.
Among the testimonies, that of Catherine Lambret, Director of studies at the Institut Pratique du Journaliste between 1982 and 2002, should be remembered. Invited to confide, the ex-director of the IPJ could not have been clearer, confirming the rumors in the hallway. At the time, it was out of the question for her to send female students on an internship with PPDA: “They [Des journalistes, ndlr] advised me never to send girls where PPDA might be. I only sent boys […] It was his reputation, he attacked girls. For ten years, I never sent a girl on an internship at TF1“, she says openly.
PPDA “could pounce on you”
Asked about his wordsserious” by the journalist who interviewed her, Catherine Lambret recounts that the situation was such that: “All the editorial journalists at the time said thatyou shouldn’t stay at the end of the day, be the last to leave because PPDA might throw itself on you.“. A chilling story, which adds to those of the victims, and to the incongruous testimony of the journalist Christine Ockrent on the narcissism of his ex-colleague, who, according to his memories, had a bust of him in his office.
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However, the journalist has a mass of testimonies against him.
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In the Supplement to the investigation of Thursday April 28, Catherine Lambert, a former director of the IPJ confided.
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In more than twenty years, “I have never sent girls” to work with PPDA, she explains.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor
The director admits to having taken the advice of journalists who reported on the assaults of the star of the JT on her female colleagues.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor
The one who is also an author was far from the trainees, “it was not necessary to stay” last in the writing, remembers Catherine Lambert.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and his daughter Morgane
The presenter’s daughter supports him and denies the testimonies of the victims.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor was the face of TF1’s 20h news from 1987 to 2008.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and Claire Chazal
He formed with his ex-girlfriend and colleague Claire Chazal one of the most publicized couples of the chain. The latter, mother of her son François, supports him.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and Nicolas Hulot
PPDA was one of the most influential men in journalism, close to Nicolas Hulot, also accused by multiple women for similar facts.
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Patrick Poivre d’Arvor
He is now filing a complaint for “slanderous denunciations” and will face his accusers, who could not succeed despite their complaints, the facts being prescribed.