France: the investigation targeting Olivier Duhamel for "rape and sexual assault" dismissed
In "La familia grande", Camille Kouchner accuses the political scientist Olivier Duhamel of incest.
AFP - JOEL SAGET
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The investigations into the facts concerning Olivier Duhamel, former MEP and renowned political scientist, were launched at the beginning of the year, after the publication of the book by his daughter-in-law, Camille Kouchner.
In this book,
La familia grande
, she accused him of sexually assaulting her twin for years.
The prosecution had to drop the proceedings, the facts being prescribed.
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This reason for classification is retained when the facts revealed or denounced in the procedure constitute an offense which would have given rise to prosecution by the prosecution if the deadline set by law had not been exceeded
", specifies the prosecutor, who under - therefore means that the facts are considered as sufficiently established by the investigators.
Olivier Duhamel, aged 71, was heard as a free suspect in April by the Brigade for the protection of minors. He had then "
hardly
" recognized the facts of incest ("rape and sexual assault by a person in authority"), according to a source familiar with the matter. Victor, 46, interviewed him in January, had finally decided to file a complaint.
Camille and Victor - an assumed name - are the twins of ex-minister Bernard Kouchner and law professor Evelyne Pisier, who died in 2017. They are 45 years old today. But even if the statute of limitations for sexual crimes against minors was extended from twenty to thirty years after the victim came of age in 2018, this extension does not apply to facts already prescribed at the time the law is promulgated, which is the case in this case.
The affair, which had caused a stir had triggered a release of the word of people presenting themselves as victims of incest.
She was also stunned because of the personalities involved and their influence in the media.
When Camille Kouchner's book was published, Olivier Duhamel initially denounced "personal attacks", then resigned from all of his functions, as president of the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP) or of the club of influence The Century.
It also stops its broadcasts on LCI or Europe 1.
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