Almost four years after the broadcast of the documentary I'm not a slut, I'm a journalist, Marie Portolano is the target of a complaint from Pierre Ménès for having talked about him in his book for defamation.
The Pierre Ménès affair has experienced a new twist. The former Canal Football Club polemicist has in fact decided to file a complaint for defamation against Marie Portolano. Not for his documentary I'm not a bitch, I'm a journalistwhich denounced sexism in the world of sports journalism and which was at the origin of the setbacks of the former reporter for L'Equipe, but for certain passages of his book
I'm the woman on set.
Three years after the broadcast of the said documentary and the tsunami it caused, precipitating the loss of Pierre Ménès, guilty in particular of having lifted her skirt and touching her buttocks while leaving the set of the Canal Football Club, Marie Portolano indeed returned to the sexual violence suffered throughout his career. And if the former Télématin presenter took care never to mention her name, Pierre Ménès is obviously mentioned. What the person concerned experienced very badly.
To believe The ParisianPierre Ménès in fact filed a complaint last June for public defamation, against Marie Portolano but also her publisher and the complaint was deemed admissible. The one who is now based in La Baule therefore became a civil party at the beginning of the autumn and a judicial investigation should be opened.
This has to stop
“I lost everything with this storyhe confided in the columns of the regional daily. My phone hasn't rang for three years. 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. » “Because at some point, it has to stop”he insisted on Instagram when relaying the information.
Two passages from the book are targeted by the complaint.
“Besides the humiliation, he allowed himself to do whatever he wanted to the women around him. To touch who he wanted where 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. writes Marie Portolano in particular, evoking “a right of cooking”. The other extract concerns the sexual assault suffered in 2016 when leaving the CFC set. “He admits he did it,”
she says. A version contested by the person concerned.
“I couldn't tell him I did it, since I don't remember it. Not a single testimony corroborates his version,” he assures on this subject.
