Yann Moix has just published Orleans, at the origin of a major family controversy around the abuse he claims to have suffered in childhood. In the wake of this publication, the writer admitted to having been, in the early 1990s, the author of anti-Semitic texts and cartoons.

The novelist Yann Moix, at the center of a controversy after acknowledging being the author of antisemitic texts and drawings at the age of 21, has chosen to "put an end" to the promotion of his latest novel, announced Monday his publisher.

"After expressing himself, especially on the program" On n'est pas couché " , the author chose to put an end to the promotion of his book and to withdraw from the media," said Maison Grasset in a statement. The 51-year-old writer has just published Orleans where he mentions the abuse he would have suffered as a child. His version of the facts was challenged by his father and younger brother who actually accuses the writer of being his hangman.

"I assume, I end everything"

This family and literary controversy has been grafted with serious accusations of anti-Semitism. Questioned by L'Express , the novelist admitted to having drawn antisemitic cartoons and wrote negationist texts in a student magazine when he was 21 years old. "I assume, I end everything, what I did at the time with 3 or 4 cons, we were completely lost types," he admitted. The writer apologized during the show " We're not lying on France 2" asking "pardon" Bernard-Henri Levy he is close.

According to information from Europe 1, the brother of the writer, Alexandre Moix asked a right of reply to France 2 after the intervention of Yann Moix Saturday night, and promises "judicial responses".