The writer Yann Moix, author of negationist drawings and texts, asks "pardon", especially Bernard Henri-Lévy in "We are not lying" on France 2, reports Le Parisien, who attended the shooting of the broadcast that will be broadcast Saturday night.
"The first thing I ask for forgiveness for the abject, shocking drawings I made when I was 20," says Yann Moix. "The young man I was, I spit on him today," says the writer and former columnist of "We are not lying," quoted by the newspaper.
"I apologize to Bernard Henri-Lévy (now one of his relatives, Editor's note) and to all those whom I have wounded from the depths of my being - sorry for these comics", he says.
"I did not have the shoulders wide enough to kill myself physically"
The drawings were published in a craft magazine in 89-90, when the writer was 21 years old.
"I did not have the shoulders wide enough to kill myself physically so I committed suicide morally I have a disgust of myself, this failure, this despised and despicable being I vomited," he says in "We are not lying".
"But I tried to tear myself away from this dark hole, from this nightmare thanks to bright people like BHL who allowed me to build intellectually, I tried to redeem myself all my life, to fight xenophobia ".
In Liberation, Yann Moix had also acknowledged being the author of negationist texts published at the time. "I assume, I end everything, what I did at the time with 3 or 4 cons, we were completely lost types," he said.