Regulars of the "Canal Football Club" will not be entitled to his scratches to debrief OM-Dijon.
This Sunday evening, Pierre Ménès will not be on the set of the “Canal Football Club”, the flagship event for Canal + sports weekends and where the star columnist is part of the furniture.
The journalist, implicated for having lifted the skirt of his colleague Marie Portolano, author of the documentary "I am not a slut, I am a journalist" who launched the case, and kissed by surprise his colleague Isabelle Moreau there has several years, signified to his management that he wanted to take a step back.
"He is resting, in agreement with Canal +," says his lawyer, Arash Derambarsh.
It is not a sanction.
He received a lot of social media messages harassing him about his physique and his weight.
He needs to take a step back and he will come back when things are better.
Possibly in a week or two.
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"No date scheduled" says the channel
But on the side of the management of the encrypted channel, we refuse to communicate on a deadline for the return of Pierre Ménès.
"No date scheduled", we explain to the Parisian.
An absence until further notice, in the wake of an internal investigation opened Thursday against the columnist, who questions the future of the journalist within the encrypted channel.
According to information from L'Equipe, the latest revelations about him could cost him his place.
“I have a little trouble believing it.
I had the feeling that the management wanted to let the storm pass, explains an internal source in the sports department of Canal +.
There was no CFC this weekend, because of the matches of the national teams, it was the occasion.
I had the feeling that he would then gradually come back.
It would be a huge disavowal for him to be pushed out.
It is not their style to give in to popular retribution.
"" It's folded.
It would be the beginning of the end ”affirms, conversely, a member of the same department.
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"L'Equipe's information is false," says Arash Derambarsh.
Pierre Ménès had a popular sanction, via social networks.
He spoke to the alleged victims and offered a clear apology.
He's in redemption.
In the coming days, he will announce his support for associations of women victims of violence.
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The person, who left the capital, is discreet.
Active on social networks in normal times, the columnist of the "Canal Football Club" has tweeted only once since the start of the affair.
It was this Monday, to say that he "regrets all these gestures of the past which were in no way justified".
Will we ever see him repeat these excuses on the CFC set?