Philippe Vandel with Alexis Patri
A little over a month before having published the testimonies of eight women (including seven with their faces uncovered), “Liberation” published on Tuesday the testimonies of three new women (including two with their faces uncovered) who recount the rapes and assaults sexual they would have undergone from Patrick Poivre d’Arvor.
They are three new women to testify to facts of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape that they would have suffered from Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. Three new testimonies which come to swell the ranks of the women testifying in the “PPDA affair” and which published Release Tuesday. A little over a month ago, the daily already published the shocking testimonies of eight women, including seven with their faces uncovered accusing Patrick Poivre d’Arvor.
It is with a new Une devoted to the case that Release announces these new testimonies, enabled by the previous investigation of Release. These three new women tell stories similar to those already published in the columns of the newspaper. One of them preferred to remain anonymous, but the other two speak with their faces uncovered.
An “unwanted” sexual intercourse
The first is novelist Amandine Cornette de Saint Cyr, who crossed paths with PPDA in 2009 at the Cannes Film Festival, after previously appearing on her literary show. The facilitator then offers him to climb the stairs and gives him an appointment in front of his hotel. He pretends to be late and asks her to join him in his room. He welcomes her naked under a bathrobe and throws himself on her. A sexual intercourse follows which she does not qualify as “rape”, but which she explains was “unwanted”.
Contacted by Release the lawyer for the former 8 p.m., Jacqueline Laffont, did not respond to the newspaper’s requests. These three new testimonies would bring to 26 the number of women who, in the press or as part of a judicial investigation, testified against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor.