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The writer Yann Moix and his parents clashed on Thursday March 7 before the Paris criminal court, with him accused of defamation and insults after he accused his parents of violence and abuse.
Yann Moix sells thousands of books, dreams of a Goncourt, wanders from scenes to TV sets, gets drunk on drunken sex, but he doesn’t like people looking at him. Barely arrived in the honey-wood courtroom of the Batignolles courthouse, the writer and columnist grows annoyed in a low voice, instructing a police officer to ask a journalist installed a few rows away to stop “fix it”. He stamps his feet while waiting for the magistrates, crosses his arms, uncrosses them, jumps from his bench when finally, the president enters and calls him. Yann Moix, 55, is on trial this Thursday March 7 before the 17th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court for public insult and defamation.
His parents, José and Marie-Josée Moix, 80 and 75 years old respectively, did not appreciate being treated like “bastards”of “racist”, “homophobes” and of “barbarians” by their eldest son. A litany of recriminations poured out on camera in an episode of the show As an aside broadcast in October 2022 on Canal +, three years after the publication of his novel Orleans published by Grasset, in which he accuses his parents of child abuse. “These are people who would have denounced Jews during the war,” he blurted out during the