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Sexual violence: EA Sports collaboration with Pierre Ménès suspended?

2021-03-24T17:07:56.218Z


Electronic Arts, the publisher of the football simulation game Fifa, in which Pierre Ménès is one of the star commentators, announced to me


The chopper hasn't fallen yet, but the threat implodes in a sharp tweet.

“We are carefully following the worrying facts alleged against Pierre Ménès because we are very vigilant about the behavior of our athletes and our partners.

In light of these elements, we are actively reviewing the continuation of his relationship with EA SPORTS, ”said EA Sports, on one of its Twitter accounts.

The publisher of the Fifa football simulation game, in which Pierre Ménès is one of the star commentators, could thus suspend or put an end to his collaboration with the sports journalist.

We are carefully following the worrying facts alleged against Pierre Menes because we are very vigilant about the behavior of our athletes and our partners.

In light of these elements, we are actively reviewing the continuation of his relationship with EA SPORTS.

- EA France (@EAFrance) March 24, 2021

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The half-hearted apologies of Pierre Ménès after the controversy over his behavior towards women.

Canal + was accused Monday of having censored a documentary on sexism in sports journalism to protect its columnist Pierre Ménès, the passages implicating him in two cases of sexual assault having been cut from the final version, according to the site Days.

Contacted by AFP, the channel declined to comment.

Broadcast on Sunday on Canal +, the documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist", by Marie Portolano, a former house journalist leaving for M 6, retraces more than 40 years of struggle for parity in this very masculine sector. , between condescending glances, remarks on the physique even harassment.

From Nathalie Iannetta to Clémentine Sarlat via Estelle Denis, many journalists have testified at the microphone of the co-director, herself the victim of sexual assault, according to the Days, by Pierre Ménès.

"I will never be caught doing things like that"

In August 2016, at the end of a program from the "Canal Football Club", the columnist would have lifted her skirt before grabbing her buttocks, "off the air but in front of the public," says the online media.

The other case concerns his colleague Isabelle Moreau, forcibly kissed on the mouth by Pierre Ménès to "celebrate" the hundredth, in 2011, of the Canal Football Club, a scene visible on social networks.

One of the passages was finally broadcast Monday evening in the program "Touche pas à mon poste" on C8 (Canal + group), which received Pierre Ménès.

"I will never be caught doing things like that", he said, while estimating that since the emergence of the movement "#Metoo, we can not say anything, we can not do anything".

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Since Monday, indignant reactions have been raining down on social networks, particularly those affiliated with the keyword #PierreMenesOut.

Radio France has opened an internal investigation, after the revelations of journalist Amaia Cazenave in the documentary.

She confided in it several sexist events that had occurred during her career in the public service.

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"I am not a slut": internal investigation at Radio France after accusations of sexism

The Nanterre public prosecutor's office, which had opened a judicial investigation for “moral harassment” on December 16, 2020 following a complaint from his former assistant Emmanuel Trumer, has not received any other complaints against Pierre Ménès.

Source: leparis

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