Shock: an intellectual of the French elite confessed to having abused his son-in-law

PARIS.- Olivier Duhamel, the French political scientist denounced for sexual abuse by his 14-year-old stepson in the 1980s, admitted his guilt during an interrogation by the police, according to French sources who cited sources from the investigation.

The hearing was part of the investigations opened on January 5 by the Paris prosecutor’s office after the publication of the book “La grande famille” by Camille Kouchner. In this book, she accuses her stepfather Olivier Duhamel of having sexually assaulted her twin when he was a teenager. Camille Kouchner – daughter of the founder of the humanitarian organization Médecins sans frontières and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kouchner – and her brother have already been questioned by investigators.

The investigation opened for “rape and sexual assault by a person having authority over a child under 15” also aimed to “identify any other potential victim,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office.

The events would have occurred at the end of the Eighties, in the middle of the silence of “the big family”, the title of the book and the nickname given to this group of friends, intellectuals and artists of the left, fascinated by the Cuban Revolution, that Duhamel and his wife Evelyne Pisier, who was in love with Fidel Castro in the 1960s.

Even before the publication of the book, Duhamel, 70, resigned as president of the National Political Science Foundation and he left his habitual participation in radio and television programs.

Camille Kouchner, now 45, remained silent for many years at the request of her brother, but little by little she broke it off with some members of the family. Even her mother, Evelyne Pisier – actress Marie-France Pisier’s sister – knew it, but she never left her husband..

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