It is up to Canal + to act.
Asked about the controversy surrounding the attitude of Pierre Ménès with her female colleagues, Roxana Maracineanu referred this Thursday morning "to her employer" to the fate of the star columnist and the "responsibility" of the encrypted channel to "put on the air and to legitimize ”men like Pierre Ménès.
The latter having been incriminated in a recent documentary relating sexism and sexual assault.
Women journalists denounce sexism: Roxana Maracineanu, Minister of Sports, asks "those who are responsible for putting on the air and legitimizing" men like Pierre Ménès to react.
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The Minister of Sports also thanked the women sports journalists who spoke about their experiences at work.
"I tell them thank you for having spoken and raised this subject, as has been done in other sectors of activity," commented the minister on Thursday on Franceinfo, insisting on "parity" and "diversity" in practice, governing bodies, "and at the end of the chain on a platform where we talk about sport," she said.
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"It's a big heavy": Pierre Ménès, star of Canal +, at the heart of the turmoil
Canal + was accused Monday of having censored the documentary "I am not a slut" by Marine Portolano and Guillaume Priou to protect Pierre Ménès, the passages implicating him in two cases of sexual assault having been cut from the version final, according to the website Les Jours.
In front of the outcry, a passage was then broadcast Monday evening on in the program "Touche pas à mon poste", on C8 (Canal + group), which received Pierre Ménès, and the latter then tried to make an act of contrition.
"This type of question and this type of answer no longer have its place"
"Today, this case precisely concerns the employer of Pierre Ménès, as it concerns employers to broadcast, promote, accredit and legitimize the presence of people who think that", explained Roxana Maracineanu.
"We live in a society where this type of question and this type of answer no longer has its place," she said.
In August 2016, at the end of a program from the "Canal Football Club", Pierre Ménès would have lifted Marie Portolono's skirt before grabbing her buttocks, "off the air but in front of the public", says the site Les Jours.
Facts partly disputed by Pierre Ménès, who only admitted to having raised the skirt of the journalist.
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Asked also about the fact that she said, in the Assembly last week, "sensitive to the issue of advertising after eight pm" Friday, with the sights set on the Paris-2024 Olympics, she said Thursday that "the stake is to see more female sport on television, more sport in the clear and it is true that the public service is the best place to do it".
"It is not me who will decide, it is Roselyne Bachelot", the Minister of Culture, she added.
