Olivier Duhamel in 2018. – CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
Political scientist Olivier Duhamel, who is also a lawyer, admitted to the police the facts of incest on his son-in-law, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The hearing of Olivier Duhamel by the police, comes as part of the investigations launched on January 5 by the Paris prosecutor’s office upon the publication of the book La Familia grande by Camille Kouchner. Heard Tuesday as a witness in the context of the investigation Olivier Duhamel admitted the facts “with difficulty” during his hearing before the brigade for the protection of minors (BPM) in charge of the case.
In her book, which triggered an unprecedented speech release in France on incest, the author, daughter of Evelyne Pisier and former minister Bernard Kouchner, accuses her stepfather Olivier Duhamel of having sexually assaulted his twin when he was a teenager in the 1980s.