French police launched an appeal Tuesday for witnesses in the case of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described ...
Gabriel Matzneff, pictured in 2014, has long been tolerated, admired and even protected in Paris literary circles. PARIS: French police launched an appeal Tuesday for witnesses in the case of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described relationships with underage teens in his work, the top Paris prosecutor said.
Matzneff has never made any secret of his preference for sex with adolescent girls and boys, including on trips to Asia. In the mid-1970s, he published a notorious essay called"Les Moins de Seize Ans" ."An appeal for witnesses will be launched today by the police services who we have mandated to carry out the investigation," Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz told Europe 1 radio.
But his publisher Gallimard said in January it was halting the sale of his works while Matzneff also risks losing two major state honours as officer of Arts and Letters and knight of the Order of National Merit. He lamented that former supporters had stayed silent."They're showing their cowardice," he said."We can say caution, but it's more than caution from people I considered friends."
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