This Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Jean-Pierre Pernaut was invited to Europe 1. The opportunity for the journalist to come back to the Patrick Poivre d’Arvor affair, accused of rape and sexual assault by several women, and to formulate a shocking comment.
Invited by Philippe Vandel on Europe 1, this Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Jean-Pierre Pernault spoke on the accusations of rape and sexual assault against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. While eight women spoke in Liberation on their behalf and openly with Liberation, Jean-Pierre Pernaut seems to have seen fit to give, once again, his opinion on the case. “I know PPDA was a bit heavy with chicks. They would talk about it every now and then laughing, that’s the only thing I can vouch for.”, he confided. “There are testimonies today which are… Here, I read them, I look at them. But I was not aware of these facts when I shared my professional life with Patrick”, he said on Europe 1.
This is not the first time that Jean-Pierre Pernaut has defended his colleague and claims to have never witnessed such acts when he was working with Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. In March 2021, in Les Grandes Gueules on RMC, Jean-Pierre Pernaut described PPDA as “someone who loved women and who never hid his love for women”, but felt that “his office was in the middle of the writing, if something had happened in that office we would have known. If bad things had happened, we would have known. I would like to know the list of people who testified, because these testimonies are false. “
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