We had to save the soldier Pierre Ménès.
And it was Cyril Hanouna who was sent to the front line to extinguish the fire.
The presenter of "Touche Pas à Mon Poste", the flagship show of C8, little sister of Canal Plus, had invited the columnist on his set to explain himself after a heated controversy that has seized social networks since the broadcast of the documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist" on the encrypted channel this Sunday.
A powerful documentary in which female journalists bear witness to the sexism and harassment of the sports journalism community.
The site Les Jours had revealed in the wake that several scenes incriminating the football consultant had been cut before the dissemination of the doc.
Among these elements removed from the documentary, one which concerns the co-director, the journalist Marie Portolano.
In 2016, while she was working on the flagship Sunday meeting of the encrypted channel, the "Canal Football Club", the star columnist would have lifted her skirt.
A scene off the air, but in the presence of the audience of the show.
Outraged, Marie Portolano allegedly slapped him.
Another cut sequence, still in the "CFC", Pierre Ménès by surprise kissed another of his sisters, the journalist Isabelle Moreau.
One of the sequences cut during editing by Canal Plus was broadcast on the TPMP program in the presence of Pierre Ménès who reacted live.
The Canal Plus journalist visibly moved by the controversy made his mea culpa.
“These images are scandalous today.
Frankly somewhere I deserve it a bit.
I cannot understand the insults and death threats, but the critics do ”.
In the cut footage of the documentary, we see him discussing with Marie Portolano.
"Lift my skirt, would you do it again?"
», Asks the latter.
"Did that humiliate you?"
I'm sorry, ”replied Pierre Ménès while asserting that if it had to be done again,“ he would do it again ”.
“You have to take people as they are.
I am a character, ”he adds.
Comments that he says he regrets on the set of TPMP, explaining that cutting the sequence during the editing will undoubtedly have caused him more harm than if it had been broadcast.
Discover the exclusive images that were not shown in the documentary #JeNeSuisPasUneSalope.
Pierre Ménès reacts in #TPMP.
pic.twitter.com/me4Kq3j7IG
- TPMP (@TPMP) March 22, 2021
The CFC columnist also apologized to Francesca Antoniotti present on the set.
“Obviously when I see the scene with Francesca (whom he had forcibly kissed live several years ago) I would change my mind.
Today, it's #MeToo we can no longer do or say anything ”, he develops a little awkwardly.
“But I stand by what I said: a man and a woman for me is the same.
I carry them in the same way ”.
“Like I said, my professional life has been full of girls, and I haven't had any problems with anyone.
I live it badly, because it is not me, I am not like that ”, defends Pierre Ménès, who underlines the unfailing support of the encrypted channel towards him.
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A little earlier Marlène Schiappa had contributed to the controversy on BFMTV.
“Grabbing the buttocks or forcing a kiss is sexual assault.
What deeply shocks me is that nobody reacts around ”recalled the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior of France, in charge of Citizenship.
“It's shocking that a sports journalist takes advantage of being live to pass it off as humor.
I call on employers to their responsibilities to create safe working conditions for their employees, ”she stressed, while refusing to“ get involved in production issues ”and to call for sanctions against Pierre Ménès .
Marlène Schiappa (@MarleneSchiappa) about Pierre Ménès: "Grabbing a person's buttocks or kissing them by force, it's a sexual assault" pic.twitter.com/tWzaBp5RwZ
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) March 22, 2021
In the afternoon, a tweet from the spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior also highlighted the legal risks incurred for a sexual assault.
🔴 Kissing someone by force / by surprise, "grabbing the buttocks" ... On a TV set, in transport, at work, whatever the context, it is a matter of sexual assault punishable by law.
#JeNeSuisPasUneSalope
Pour ne #RienLgezPasser
➡️https: //t.co/29GLdVCcrH pic.twitter.com/kQnB2wLUTE
- Spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior (@PorteParoleMI) March 22, 2021
