The French justice announced this Friday the opening of a preliminary investigation for rape and sexual assault against the former minister and figure of the French environmental world

Nicolas Hulot

after the accusations of several women in a television report.

The investigations seek "to determine whether the denounced events can be considered as a criminal offense and if, given their age, the public action has prescribed," said the Paris prosecutor,

Laure Beccuau

, in a statement.

At least six women, including a minor at the time of the events, accuse the former television presenter and former Minister of Ecological Transition of rape or

sexual assault between 1989 and 2001

.

He denies it.

In this 62-minute report broadcast on Thursday night on a well-known broadcast on France 2 public television, three women explain the attacks they claim to have been victims of.

The broadcast includes the testimony of the environmental activist

Claire Nouvian

and recalls the lawsuit for rape filed in 2018 by the granddaughter of former President

François Mitterrand, Pascale Mitterrand

, and which was filed when the crime was prescribed.

On the eve of its broadcast,

Hulot flatly denied these accusations

on the BFMTV network and announced that he was "definitively" withdrawing from public life, to protect his relatives and the Foundation that bears his name from a "lynching."

The Paris prosecutor's office systematically opens investigations into accusations of sexual assaults against minors,

even if the facts seem prescribed

, to verify them and look for possible crimes that can still be prosecuted.

Nicolas Hulot was Minister of Ecological Transition in the first cabinet of liberal President

Emmanuel Macron

, a position he left 15 months later in August 2018 after criticizing the government's lack of ambition.

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