The judicial investigation targeting Patrick Poivre d'Arvor for rape was extended to two rapes and a sexual assault denounced by three different women, while the complaints or testimonies of 19 other women were closed without further action, announces the Nanterre prosecutor's office, cited by AFP.
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Three other facts denounced were the subject of an additional referral on February 27, 2024 by the two investigating judges already seized of the facts concerning Ms.
Florence Porcel
, so that the scope of their investigations could be extended to these facts
”, two rapes and an alleged sexual assault committed between 2007 and 2018, the public prosecutor further clarified.
“Women are demanding justice.
They are not heard”
On the other hand, the accusations of 19 women, resulting from a second wave of denunciations, were dismissed.
According to RTL, the reason given is prescription.
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Despite the research carried out in this direction, no procedural act likely to have been interrupted was found
,” the prosecution said in the letter sent to the complainants.
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We are the classified ones, the ones without action, the prescribed ones.
» On social networks, several of them denounced this judicial treatment.
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There are around fifty of us who testified.
Too late, justice tells us.
Who bears responsibility for silence?
Us or the society that punishes those who speak?
, asks about X Hélène Devynck.
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Three years since we stopped counting rapes and attacks.
The women speak.
Women demand justice.
They are not heard
,” criticized Cécile Delarue.