The writer Gabriel Matzneff, targeted by an investigation for rape of minors, will also be tried on September 28, 2021 for “apology” for pedophilia before the 17th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, specializing in press and freedom of affairs cases. expression.
The writer was summoned to appear by the prevention association against pedophilia the Blue Angel. This procedure allows a victim to summon the alleged perpetrator directly to court, without a prior investigation being carried out. It is up to the victim to collect the evidence of guilt from the alleged perpetrator.
Apology of pedophile acts "and specifically of the crime of aggravated rape"
In its summons to appear, the association refers to three articles published between the end of December and the beginning of January in the Obs, the Parisian and the Express, and accuses the writer of having praised pedophile acts "and precisely of aggravated rape ”by referring to the relationship he had with Vanessa Springora.
The latter, editor, published in early January a book, The Consent , in which she blames the 83-year-old writer for his relations with minors. This publication on their relationship in the 1980s when she was not yet 14 years old led to the opening by the Paris public prosecutor's office of a preliminary investigation for "rapes committed against a minor under 15 years of age".
Gabriel Matzneff's claimed attraction to the “under 16s” and to sex tourism with young boys in Asia, which he has told in books, has long been tolerated in the Parisian literary world.
A call for witnesses to find other victims was launched Tuesday and a search was underway Wednesday in the premises of Gallimard Publishing, in Paris, as part of this investigation, we learned from a source close to the file, confirming information from Mediapart.
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