• Scandal: Investigate French writer Gabriel Matzneff for child rape

The Gallimard publishing house, the most prestigious in France, has announced that it will no longer publish the writer Gabriel Matzneff , investigated for an alleged violation denounced in the book 'Le consentement' ('The consent') by Vanessa Springora, when he was a minor.

"The suffering" shown by Springora in his work justifies "this exceptional measure," said the publisher, who had been publishing Matzneff's newspaper since 1990.

Gallimard also indicated that for the first time in his history he will withdraw from the bookstores the copies still present of his last installment , 'L'amante de l'Arsenal', published last November .

Matzneff, 83, is the subject of an investigation for rape of minors after the revelations of Springora, who have returned to the front page other stories of the writer himself in which he showed his taste for "under 16 years" and his travels from sex tourism to Asia.

Search for other victims

Beyond the investigation by the revelations of Springora, the French Prosecutor's Office seeks " any other victim who may have suffered violations of the same nature in national or foreign territory."

The 'Matzneff case' has caused a great controversy in France, where it is considered that the intellectual environments did not act despite knowing the writer's way of acting with minors.

It was last Friday when Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz announced an ex officio investigation into Matzneff. In her book Springora, 47, describes how she was seduced when she was 14 years old by Matzneff , who was 50 at the time, and what are the consequences with which she has lived since then.

Springora had announced her willingness not to file a complaint, but the Prosecutor's Office has decided to act on her own initiative, in light of the writer's testimony in her book, despite the fact that the facts would have prescribed.

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