Investigations completed and a favorable outcome for Pierre Ménès? According to information from Sunday newspaperconfirmed by a source familiar with the case to AFP on Friday, the Nanterre prosecution requested a dismissal for the former Canal + columnist Pierre Ménès, in the procedure following the complaint for “moral harassment” against him .
Emmanuel Trumer, who worked from September 2017 to June 2018 with Pierre Ménès as an employee, had filed a complaint against him in October 2019 for moral harassment. A complaint which had been dismissed in October 2020 by the Nanterre prosecutor’s office “for an insufficiently characterized offense”.
The decision of a trial belongs to the examining magistrate
Emmanuel Trumer, who denounces in particular “homophobic” remarks by Pierre Ménès, had then obtained the opening of a judicial investigation in December 2020, following a complaint filed with a civil party. A procedure in which an examining magistrate had placed Pierre Ménès under the intermediate status of assisted witness.
According to information from JDD, confirmed by AFP, the magistrate has finished the investigations in this case. If the prosecution requested in mid-December a dismissal for Pierre Ménès, the final decision concerning a possible trial ultimately belongs to the investigating judge. Contacted by AFP, his lawyer did not wish to react.
Under investigation for sexual assault
In another case in Nanterre, Pierre Ménès, 59, is the subject of an investigation, still ongoing, for sexual assault and sexual harassment, after the revelations of journalist Marie Portolano.
Pierre Ménès had left Canal + in the summer of 2021 after these revelations which had prompted him to present his “regrets” and “most sincere apologies” to his “victims”.
He should also be tried in Paris in March 2023 for sexual assault, in another case.