A delicate subject… On February 18, 2021, Le Parisien revealed that Florence Porcel accused Patrick Poivre d’Arvor of sexual assault. Since then, a collective of 90 women have testified against the former emblematic presenter of TF1. Among them, 45 women filed complaints, half of them for rape, with two minors concerned at the time of the alleged events. If the star had filed a complaint for slanderous denunciation, she was indicted for the first time in 2023. Sunday January 19, 2025, it was then that five stars of the channel were gathered to answer questions from readers of Le Parisien that the one of them asked: “Did the PPDA affair, targeted by several complaints of rape, surprise you?” Jean-Claude Narcy, former TF1 news presenter, then replied: “Of course yes! Since then, we have taken the opposite approach by setting up a supervisory board.” Also present, Anne-Claire Coudray did not speak the language. “We all fell out of the closet and experienced it as a trauma. We wondered about the questioning of the editorial staff, the fact that many people knew and that no one said anything,” he said. she declared.
In complete transparency, the presenter of the TF1 8 p.m. news added: “We went back to those years, when we all worked with him. The word ‘rape’ was never uttered, I can tell you ensure it.” Monday February 6, 2023, for Le Parisien, the journalist Romain Verley had (…)
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