Almost 37 years after his death, Michel Foucault was accused of abusing minors in Africa: “He was a horrible guy”

Almost 37 years after his death, the French philosopher and essayist Michel Foucault is accused of the crime of pedophilia by the essayist Guy Sorman (77).

The writer and compatriot of Foucault accused him of pedophilia in Africa, during an interview with the Sunday Times, which has caused a sensation in the public in recent hours.

Sorman said that in 1969 he visited the author of “Attention and punish“(1975) in the town of Sidi Bou Said, in Tunisia, where he lived, and there he learned that paid minors to have sex with them.

He assured them that they were boys aged 8 to 10 years old. “He was telling them, ‘Meet at ten in the evening at the usual place,’” which, he described in the interview, was the local cemetery. “He sexually abused them. He had sex on the tombstones with the boys,” he shot.

According to Sorman said, on this trip he recounts from 1969, there were also other witnesses, including journalists, who were aware of this. He said that they silenced him because Foucault was like “a god in France; the philosopher king“.

“He wouldn’t have dared to do that in France“, He assured, while noting that in the alleged acts of Foucault, there was” a colonial dimension of white imperialism “.

He assured that seeing what he was doing in Tunisia was worth reproaching him “for not having denounced at the time”, but stressed that this did not lead him to reject his work “but to look at it differently. “.

He thought that it shouldn’t be undone, but “to see it with a double glance”. Likewise, he said that it seems necessary to know that “he was a horrible guy”.

According to CNN, Foucault was involved in another controversy during his lifetime, having signed the petition asking the French Parliament to decriminalize consensual relations with minors.

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