Pierre Ménès believes that he has “lost everything” since the revelations about his behavior towards women and is seeking compensation. The sports journalist filed a complaint against Marie Portolano for defamation, as revealed The Parisian.
However, this is not the documentary of his former colleague from Canal Football Club, I'm not a bitch, I'm a journalistbroadcast in 2021, which is in question, but his book entitled I am the woman on the set, released on March 13 this year.
If, in the documentary, the name of Pierre Ménès was mentioned, it is not in the book published three years later. However, the sports journalist considers himself sufficiently recognizable and therefore requests compensation. His defamation complaint also attacks the book's publisher, Stock. A case deemed admissible by the court, according to The Parisian.
“Behavior behavior” vs. “rights of cooking”
Since 2021 and the broadcast of Marie Portolano's documentary, Pierre Ménès has been fired from Canal + and his “phone has stopped ringing” since. “I left my honor, my work, my health there. I don't see what more Marie Portolano wants. She needs to leave me alone now. I’m tired of all this,” he told the daily.
A guarantee that Marie Portolano must also have been tired of the “right to abuse” that she describes in her book, and of the “humiliation” that would have been perpetrated by the one who “allowed himself to do what he pleased to the women who surrounded him. To touch whoever he wanted, with the consent, not of the people concerned obviously, but of those who could have easily stopped him, his hierarchical superiors for example, always witnesses to these actions.
As for Canal +, the investigation is “still ongoing” into what happened in its sports department. As for Pierre Ménès, his lawyer, Maître Nicolas Rebbot, explains the attitude of his client – who denies having committed a sexual assault on his colleague who has not filed a complaint – as being “behavior of a redneck, of great mouth, which are no longer possible today”, specifying all the same “and that's happy”.
