One of France’s most outstanding TV journalists has been charged with rape, the prosecutor’s workplace has mentioned, following a string of accusations of sexual abuse on the top of his profession.

It is the primary time that former prime-time information presenter Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, 76, has been charged.

Poivre d’Arvor was charged on Monday with raping author Florence Porcel in 2009, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned late Tuesday.

The journalist’s attorneys in an announcement mentioned he “firmly contested the allegations made by Porcel as he has done since the first day”.

Porcel, 40, has accused him of forcing her to have intercourse with him in 2004 and carry out oral intercourse in 2009.

The prosecutor’s workplace mentioned he was nonetheless below investigation over the alleged 2004 incident.

French prosecutors launched an preliminary inquiry in 2021 then dropped it a number of months later, however Porcel filed a brand new grievance, resulting in the cost on Monday.

Some 22 girls have additionally come ahead to accuse the tv persona of rape, in addition to sexual assault and harassment. Another probe is wanting into these allegations.

Women who’ve accused him welcomed the indictment.

“We’re overjoyed by this decision, both for Florence Porcel… and all the women who have taken part in the judicial proceedings,” #MeTooMedia, a bunch based by three girls who’ve accused him, mentioned on X, previously Twitter, late Tuesday.

One of them, Marie-Laure Eude Delattre, instructed AFP it was “extraordinary progress”, even when all was not received.

Delattre in 2021 filed a grievance towards Poivre d’Arvor, accusing him of raping her as a 23-year-old intern on the Cannes Film Festival in 1985.

“Finally,” mentioned journalist Helene Devynck, who has accused him of raping her when she was his assistant in 1993, however whose grievance was thrown out due to a statute of limitations.

The cost comes as France reels from renewed focus this month on allegations of sexual violence towards famous person actor Gerard Depardieu.

A Spanish journalist and writer mentioned on Tuesday that she had filed a felony grievance in Spain towards Depardieu, claiming that he raped her practically three a long time in the past in Paris.

The actor was charged with rape in one other case in France in 2020, and has additionally been accused of sexual harassment and assault by greater than a dozen girls.

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