Accused of denial and anti-Semitism, the writer Yann Moix spoke on Tuesday evening. "I assume," he says, saying "released" by the publication of documents that incriminate him. "The age of 20 is made to be wrong," he says.

While he is promoting his book Orleans , Yann Moix is ​​at the heart of a (new) controversy in which he is accused of anti-Semitism and denial. The 50-year-old writer reacted to the accusations Tuesday night with Libération. "I assume, I endorse everything," he said after the publication by L'Express of anti-Semitic drawings and negationist texts signed by the writer while he was a student.

"I am not anti-Semitic"

"Everything I did at the time with three or four cons, we were completely lost types, I wrote, I drew, I produced shit, these texts and drawings are anti-Semitic, but I'm not not anti-Semitic I mocked the myopaths, the hunger in the world, Abbé Pierre ... Today, the man I am ashamed.The whole journey that I have since, my entire career 'man is the story of someone who tried to break away from this toxic geography, pull me out of this trap.'

"Rather than falling into shit, I got up, being intellectually curious, I had the chance to meet Bernard Henri-Lévy, who avoided me becoming the man I could have been, a I'm not proud, but I'm happy about my career, I'm 20 years old, it's made to be wrong, and today, as these drawings come out, I feel free. this sword of Damocles with which I lived for thirty years, I will be able to continue my work with a clear mind, and work on the writing of Reims [his next book, editor's note] "

This controversy is not the first that touches the author and columnist since the beginning of the promotion of his book. For several days, Yann Moix is ​​at the center of a family controversy with the release of his novel Orleans which tells his childhood, marked by him according to the abuse of his father, "a pure fabulation" according to him.