On the front page: political scientist Olivier Duhamel accused of incest in a book by his step-daughter
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In "La familia grande", Camille Kouchner accuses political scientist Olivier Duhamel of incest.
A book to be found at Éditions Seuil.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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La familia grande
is the title of the book by which the scandal happened this week, and that Camille Kouchner signs, who accuses, without ever naming it, her stepfather Olivier Duhamel, ex-MEP and figure of the left intelligentsia in France, incest on the person of her twin brother (hers) when the latter was a teenager.
According to his daughter-in-law, Olivier Duhamel was "
protected
" by a "
form of family omerta by the victim's own mother, Evelyne Pisier
", states
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
From the start of the week which ends in France, it was a real explosion in the press.
To cite just one example, here are some confidences of Camille Kouchner
in
Elle
magazine
.
“
I hear my stepfather come into my brother's room, but I don't want to betray.
That's the hold
, she said to this women's weekly.
I tell myself that it is impossible for him to wish us harm
(…)
Today
, (…)
I am extremely angry with him
(…)
I think he is crazy
”, Camille Kouchner said to
Elle again.
.
(His book is published at Seuil).
Without transition, domestic violence continued to increase in France during the last confinement, and not only a little ... They recorded an increase of 60% compared to normal.
Marlène Schiappa
told Le
Parisien Dimanche
.
The Minister for Citizenship explains this increase by "
the looming economic crisis
".
The dossier of the week is devoted to the Congo. It was sixty years ago. The assassination in the middle of the Cold War of Patrice Lumumba, ephemeral head of the Congolese executive, who has since become a world icon of resistance to imperialism
:
And this week in France, the face of Patrice Lumumba merges with the map of Africa on the front page of the Catholic magazine
La Croix l'Hebdo
.
Being reminded that the remains of Patrice Lumumba, or what remains of it - a tooth, a simple tooth, in this case - must return to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a national funeral on June 30, the day of the 61st anniversary of independence, and that on that day, the Congo will show "
its gratitude
" to the national hero,
La Croix l'Hebdo
emphasizes: "
Entering into the history of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the fight of his children for his memory allows us to see differently the always complex relationships between descendants of colonizers and heirs of colonized people
”.
Ah, how in gallant terms these things are put!
Assassinated on January 17, 1961, cut into pieces and dissolved in acid, Lumumba was then 35 years old and had spent barely six months in power.
“
A comet in the Congolese sky.
But a world star was born
”, formulates
La Croix l'Hebdo
, who left for Kinshasa to meet his daughter Juliana, his sons Roland and François, children still alive of the national hero.
Juliana, whom this magazine calls "
the Antigone of Kinshasa
", says she is "
haunted
(because)
the ancestral course of rites has been diverted, the passage into the afterlife could not unfold as it should
".
Professor at the University of Kinshasa, the historian Isidore Ndaywel explains to this newspaper that, in Bantu traditions, “
as long as someone has no burial, he is always wandering somewhere
(…)
Legends circulate .
If the Congo is still in crisis, it is because Lumumba has no burial
”, continues the historian.
In Belgium, a complaint was filed by the family in 2011. The following year, Lumumba's assassination was reclassified as a war crime:
Certainly, but out of the ten Belgian citizens cited in the complaint, eight are now dead.
"
My deep conviction is that the investigation is dragging on because justice is waiting for the two people still alive on the list to die in order to be able to classify the complaint without follow-up
",
sociologist Ludo De Witte
told
La Croix l'Hebdo
.
Not at all, retorts in this same weekly the federal prosecutor of Belgium, “
this type of file takes time: the facts go back sixty years, there are very few living witnesses left.
The investigating judge is working actively
”.
But in Belgium too, times are changing.
“
With Black Lives Matter, the lines have shifted,
wants to believe Juliana Lumumba
in
La Croix l'Hebdo
.
What was acceptable twenty years ago is no longer acceptable
”.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth…
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