A FRENCH rugby legend has been filmed allegedly lifting up an influencer’s skirt whereas sitting beneath her.
Charline Pradeau, 23, was dancing on a desk in a bar in south west France when the previous ruby participant and TV presenter Richard Dourthe allegedly peaked beneath her skirt.
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Video of the incident, which passed off on the Féria de Dax, an annual pageant within the city of Dax, has amassed over 1,000,000 views.
The 23-year-old seems in excessive spirits as she dances on the bar desk earlier than noticing the man pull up her skirt.
Wearing customary purple and white, she seems to reprimand him earlier than wanting straight within the digicam.
Pradeau, from Toulouse, is famed for her healthful posts documenting what she does day-to-day.
This newest clip was posted with two captions, one which mentioned: “You simply wish to take pleasure in your self but it surely’s not possible once more as a result of… males.”
And the opposite: “I hope that your spouse sees this, you fats pig. So sick of getting to cease residing due to you, I gained’t shut up.”
After sharing the now-viral video, the influencer revealed she has been struggling emotionally with the “abuse” she skilled.
She later filed a criticism for “sexist behaviour” towards Dourthe, who responded, through his lawyer, on Wednesday lodging a defamation criticism towards the influencer.
He additionally denied his behaviour was “sexist” and claimed that the “younger lady had lifted her pal’s skirt” earlier than Dourthe was concerned.
The assertion additionally mentioned that the video did not “present the younger lady putting her posterior at shoulder degree with males who had been having a drink collectively”.
Dourthe apologised instantly after the incident, the assertion concluded.
His lawyer, Arnaud Dupin mentioned: “Richard Dourthe deplores being the goal of a media marketing campaign orchestrated by an influencer, who has not hesitated in participating in real slanderous disinformation towards him.”
“Mr Richard Dourthe acknowledges that he had no enterprise touching the frill of a woman’s brief skirt whereas she was dancing on a bar.
“He instantly apologised to the younger lady involved. However, this perspective by no means justifies distorting info to create ‘a buzz’.
“It masks an equally shocking gesture by the younger lady, herself an influencer, who lifted her pal’s skirt earlier than Mr Richard Dourthe had even intervened.
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“Moreover, this video doesn’t present the start of the sequence of occasions the place the younger lady positioned her posterior at shoulder degree with males who had been having a drink collectively, with out listening to her.”
After listening to information of the defamation criticism, Pradeau launched her personal assertion through her lawyer Alexandre Parra-Bruguière.
Referring to the ex-rugby participant’s authorized actions as “determined and grotesque” she insisted she remained “solely unfazed”.
The assertion learn: “The criticism lodged by his lawyer is legally and morally misplaced.
“My consumer is solely unfazed; the info which she has denounced are confirmed and her phrases solely verify what everybody can see in a video which has been by no means doctored.
“There was no want for a 50-year-old man, leaning on a bar, to raise up the skirt of a 23-year-old lady to look beneath.”
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