Olivier Duhamel in 2014. -

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Camille Kouchner seems resigned.

While she accuses of rape on her twin brother her father-in-law, political scientist Olivier Duhamel, the author thinks that the latter will escape a trial because of the statute of limitations, she explained on France 5 Wednesday evening.

A preliminary investigation opened

The facts allegedly denounced in his book

La Familia grande

(Seuil) date back to the end of the 1980s. They were therefore probably prescribed 10 years after the majority of the victim, the son of former minister Bernard Kouchner, who has never filed a complaint and does not wish to do so.

The Paris prosecutor's office nevertheless opened a preliminary investigation on January 5, on the eve of the publication of this autobiographical account.

"It is the better to find my brother that through this book, I am parting from him."

Camille Kouchner # LGLf5 @ France5tv @EditionsduSeuil pic.twitter.com/Z0I5RewxAZ

- La Grande Librairie (@GrandeLibrairie) January 13, 2021

Guest of the show La Grande Librairie, the author revealed having explained to her son that Olivier Duhamel would not be condemned.

“I told him the story, because I was writing the book.

Already that has this virtue.

He is 12 years old my son, and he said to me: OK, OK, I could see there was something wrong, because you were almost brought up by someone I have never met ” , she confided.

"But now he's going to be doomed?"

I tell him: well no.

(…) I had just told him a terrible thing (…) and I then said to him: well no, we can not do anything more, ”she added.

"Unforgivable"

Camille Kouchner nevertheless felt that her stepfather was reduced to "silence" by these accusations.

“I had to be silent for years, for 30 years of silence.

Now I find that silence is for him (…) It's not even a story of punishment, it's just that he hears that it's unforgivable, and that it will last a lifetime ”, she said.

“He did something that is unforgivable, unforgivable.

So I do not forgive him, ”said the author.

“Physically he didn't do anything to me, morally he hurt me a lot”.

She also called not to attack those who knew and remained silent: "I would not want us to fall on them, because there is only one culprit".

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