Olivier Duhamel in 2018. -

CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

The adopted daughter and son of Olivier Duhamel were heard respectively Monday and Friday by the police investigating the charges of incest targeting the political scientist, we learned from sources familiar with the matter, confirming information of the

Parisian

.

The daily affirms that the son, interviewed Friday for two hours by the brigade for the protection of minors (BPM), "indicated that he had not been abused by his adoptive father".

The hearing of the two thirties, adopted in the 1980s by Olivier Duhamel and his wife Evelyne Pisier (deceased in 2017), comes within the framework of the investigations launched on January 5 by the Paris prosecutor's office at the publication of the book

La Familia grande

 de Camille Kouchner.

"Victor" filed a complaint

In her work, which triggered an unprecedented speech release in France on incest, the author, daughter of Evelyne Pisier and former minister Bernard Kouchner, accuses her stepfather Olivier Duhamel of having sexually assaulted her. twin when he was a teenager in the 1980s.

This twin, nicknamed "Victor" in the book, was heard on January 21 by investigators.

Now 45, he decided a few days later to file a complaint for the first time against his stepfather.

He had already been questioned by the police in 2011 and then refused to file a complaint for these facts, probably prescribed.

His sister Camille was auditioned on January 14.

The investigation, opened for "rape and sexual assault by a person having authority over a minor of 15 years", aims to verify that the facts are well prescribed since 2003, "to shed light" on this affair and "to identify any other victim. potential ”, according to the Paris prosecutor.

The hearing of Olivier Duhamel, who resigned from all his functions in early January without commenting on these accusations, should take place once those of all the members of his entourage relevant to the investigation have been carried out.

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