Director of the documentary “I am not a slut, I am a journalist”, in 2021, and author three years later of the book “I am the wife of the Plateau”, published in March 2024 at Stock editions, Marie Portolano was indicted on August 15 for defamation, according to information from the digital media on the days.
“” Pursued in defamation by the former Chronner of Canal+, it will be referred to a court. She had told in a book an alleged assault on her part
», Notes this Thursday the website behind the first media leaks regarding the embarrassment of the encrypted chain in this case.
Two passages from the book by Marie Portolano would justify the initial complaint of Pierre Ménès and the indicted indictment. “” He admits that he did it “, First, in reference to the confrontation between the victim and his alleged attacker in the documentary aroused. But also: ” It has been said that he had a “right of cooking”. In fact, he did what he liked, without ever being reprimanded. Besides humiliation, all kinds combined, he allowed himself to do what he seemed to the women around him. To touch whoever he wanted where he wanted, with the consent not of the people concerned obviously, but of those who could have stopped him, his hierarchical superiors for example, always witnesses of these actions ».
Lawyers already at work
Solicited by the days, the lawyer for Stock editions, Me Christophe Bigot (Manuel Carcassonne, the director of the publishing house, is also indicted), thus reacts to the news. “”
Beyond the anger that makes Pierre Ménès files a complaint, which allows him to make a little com and limit the spread of the book, I do not see his interest in going to the end. When you make a defamation trial, you make your own trial. »»
Pierre Ménès' lawyer, Me Nicolas Rebbot, sees the interest of such a procedure ” It allows at least that there is a debate to see if, in fact, when Marie Portolano writes these words, black on white, she had truly accessible evidence. To put it, I doubt it. »»
