This Monday, Marie Portolano appeared before the Paris court for defamation following a complaint from Pierre Ménès. The journalist criticizes his former colleague from Channel Football Club two passages from his book I’m the woman on setpublished in March 2024.
The 63-year-old man had requested that the hearing be postponed for medical reasons. A postponement refused by the court. The hearing was therefore held without the complainant. As incredible as it may seem, he was not even represented by his lawyer, Me Chloé Redon. Which was not “available, because detained to plead in detention, which naturally has priority”reports
L‘Team.
“There, like that, I do not remember a situation which would be equivalent in the history of the jurisprudence of the 17th (chamber, editor’s note)”slipped to the court Me Christophe Bigot, Marie Portolano’s lawyer, cited by Le Figaro. The latter confirmed and maintained the facts recounted in her book.
Marie Portolano persists and signs
“He considers the women around him as things, she declared in particular on the stand. When I was pregnant, he checked every week to see if I had gained breasts during my pregnancy. For me, he is a child who was never told what he had no right to do. He is guilty, but the real culprits are the people who let him do it. »
The judgment was reserved until November 4, 2026. Pierre Ménès will then appear on November 16 at the Nanterre court for sexual assault, relating to facts dating from 2016.
