Éric Salvail, loses its programming

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Éric Salvail, said Wednesday on Facebook that he was going to ” take a break professional a few days “. “In such circumstances, I am fortunate to have the support of my family, my colleagues and my partner,” he wrote.

Marc-André Lemieux

Thursday, 19 October, 2017 00:53

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Éric Salvail has lost over the past 24 hours shows that it was flying because of allegations of sexual misconduct.

V has suspended the distribution of mode Salvail ” for an indefinite period “. The company Group V Media has also indicated that it evaluated its business relationship with Salvail & Co, the home of production of the multiple award winning Artis. On the side of the advertisers, many have abandoned the talk show, including Mcdonald’s, Metro and Transat.

As to Red, the radio station, Bell Media has replaced his show, Eric and The Fantastic.

It was known

As for Harvey Weinstein, the moguls of Hollywood accused of harassment and sexual assault against several women, the testimonies collected in the case Salvail overlap on one thing : its reputation preceded it.

In an interview with the Newspaper, a filmmaker claims to have often observed the facilitator engage in touching inadequate.

“It pognait the buttocks of the guys on a regular basis “, she says.

According to the filmmaker, his behaviour was ” an open secret “.

“You can talk to 50,000 people and they would all have stories to tell,” she continued.

Some people even refuse to work for Éric Salvail, because of everything they hear. This is the case of a director tv, which launched warnings to anyone who announced his intention to collaborate with the facilitator.

The networks were unaware of

Another member of the Union of artists, told us that “no one fell out of the clouds” and having knowledge of the allegations in The Press+ on Wednesday morning.

For their part, the management of the different networks plead ignorance.

V denies having had knowledge of any allegations of the kind. Same sound of bell to VAT, where Éric Salvail has piloted several programs from 1999 to 2013, of which the Faithful in the position and thank God. No complaints about the facilitator has not been filed with the human resources department of the diffuser during his years of hiring, we indicates Véronique Mercier, vice-president, communications Groupe TVA.

No complaints

The management of Radio-Canada, which broadcasts The swingers, a talk-show summer produced by Salvail & Co has not received any complaint either.

“If necessary, they would have been treated with the utmost seriousness in accordance with our policies,” claims the company.

A source tells us, however, that in September last Red, a colleague of Eric Salvail, have notified human resources of Bell Media that the facilitator would have taken a brazen move to another employee of the network.

— With the collaboration of Dominique Scali and Raphael Gendron-Martin

► Bell did not return our calls.

Many of the testimonials

People have described the gestures and words of Éric Salvail

Jokes salacious, inappropriate remarks, but also from the hands to the buttocks. Several witnesses have agreed to discuss, under the cover of anonymity, the bullying that would have imposed Éric Salvail. They paint a portrait of a man insisting and pretending to ignore the consequences of his behaviour on his surroundings.

“In front of all the world to me, he grabbed the ass telling me that I had beautiful small buttocks. […] As he was in a position of power, I said to myself that this was not so worse and I decided to close the mouth. “

– A man who worked with Éric Salvail on a radio station that employed him

“One day, he got back and he told me to hit the ass solid. I reviré edge enough to sec It stopped there, the two of us. “

– A former colleague of Eric Salvail

“We talk about 2, 3 hours of time where he was super insistent. He wanted me to go with her to her room. I was very drunk. […] But I had to tell him no about 15 times.

– A young man invited to the award ceremony of the Games of the communication in 2010 that was run by Éric Salvail

I cut to the 30 seconds to tell me stuff like : “I would eat the ass, […] it is sure that you would have the fuck of your life”. […] After this lunch, he started to send me pictures of him naked on Facebook. […] It is as if everything was allowed. […] Nobody said anything. Nobody wants to get Eric back. He has the power. “

– Young male personality of the tv