Two new complaints against PPDA: “They are doing their duty as citizens” by denouncing the facts despite the p – franceinfo

Despite the statute of limitations, two women have just lodged a complaint against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. The two complainants “do their duty as a citizen” going “denounce facts because society must go and find out if there are other potential victims“, explains on franceinfo on Saturday their lawyer Me Laure Heinich. One denounces acts of rape in 1985, the other acts of sexual assault in 2013.

A long time, “They lived with the idea, not that you wouldn’t believe them because they were believed by their families and their friends, but they thought that you could not attack an institution” like the former star presenter of the TF1 newspaper. “These women, they did not know each other but they had in common to have wanted to file a complaint at the time of the facts and to have been discouraged, in fact, by the reputation of their attacker.”

The lawyer explains that it is the complaints already filed by other women in recent months, such as Florence Porcel, which encouraged them to finally make themselves known to the courts: “They received this complaint from previous women as something that opened a potential end for them to their traumatic story. They therefore want to mean the same to other potential victims.”.

“” Until then, attacking a man of that stature was struck by the wrong thing. And today, society comes to say that attacking women is now struck with a forbidden meaning. “”

Me Laure Heinich

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Me Laure Heinich also specifies that these new complaints reinforce the suspicion against Patrick Poivre d’Arvor who denies all the facts with which he is accused. “Word against word, when it is in the singular, there is doubt and it benefits the accused. I am a lawyer and I will never militate against that. That doubt benefits the accused, it is a good thing. At one point, when there is a word against word, against word, against word, I believe that the doubt is very seriously diminished “.