The Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot indicated in an interview published Thursday by Livres Hebdo that the writer Gabriel Matzneff, accused of rape of a minor under the age of fifteen, was now deprived of the public allowance that he had been touching for several years.
The writer Gabriel Matzneff, targeted by an investigation for rape of a minor under the age of fifteen, is definitively deprived of the public aid he has long received, Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot told
Livres Hebdo on
Thursday
.
"I can assure you that Gabriel Matzneff no longer receives his allowance," she said of the allowance for low-income writers paid since 2002 by the National Book Center.