Gabriel Matzneff in 2015 -

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"As for my own defense, it is in a book that I will formulate it" announced the writer Gabriel Matzneff, shortly after the resignation of the former deputy for culture of the City of Paris Christophe Girard, in an email addressed to BFM TV.

It seems that the writer, implicated for acts of pedocriminality in a book written by Vanessa Springora, has taken action.

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having been contacted by an intermediary of the writer, for a possible publication at home, which the editor Bruno Nougayrede refused. 

In an email obtained from the literary information site actualitte.com, the writer announces that he has finished the text, entitled

Vanessavirus

.

A source on the site indicates that the writer went through a subscription to pay the publishing costs.

Another would have received "a letter with a kind of coupon, which proposed to send a check in the amount of 100 € for a book, and 650 € with a dedication".

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a relative of the writer.

According to actualitte.com, the publication is scheduled for February 15.

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