Accused of sexual assault, Nicolas Hulot leaves public life

Accused of sexual assault, Nicolas Hulot announces this Wednesday to leave public life “definitively”.

In 2018, Nicolas Hulot, then Minister of Ecological and

Transition, had already been the subject of an article in

magazine 

, relaying two accusations against the former TV host. The newspaper mentions two separate cases. The first dates back to "summer 1997". "Nicolas Hulot would have abused" a woman in one of his houses, write the authors of the article. This is the granddaughter of François Mitterrand, 20 years old at the time, as

wrote 

. She lodged a complaint in 2008, the year following the ten-year statute of limitations in this type of case, for "a report to be drawn up telling her version of the facts".

Ebdo

 adds that she has spoken to Nicolas Hulot on several occasions in recent years, the magazine implying that this would be the reason for the ecologist's multiple withdrawals in the presidential race (2007, 2012, 2017).

"My daughter held him at gunpoint," the father of the alleged victim told the newspaper.

The other case mentioned by 

 concerns a former employee of the Hulot Foundation.

Heard as part of the investigation around Denis Baupin, former EELV deputy, she had advanced facts of harassment on the part of a former employer.

The magazine indicates that several people within Europe-Ecology-Les Verts thought it was Nicolas Hulot.

The former employee denied.

Nicolas Hulot, the former head of government Edouard Philippe and the current Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, had been elected the three favorite political figures of the French, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll, published in January 2021.

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