Mr. Girard could not explain why he Mr. Girard said he had dinner a few months ago with Mr. Matzneff, but did not consider him a friend. PARIS — Gabriel Matzneff, the French writer who talked openly for decades about engaging in pedophilia, was charged on Wednesday in a Paris court with promoting the sexual abuse of children. Girard said he was only an intermediary, acting on Mr. Bergé’s orders.
PARIS — A powerful deputy mayor of Paris, who has been criticized for his links to the pedophile writer Despite a long association with the writer, the deputy mayor, Christophe Girard, in an interview with The New York Times, denied almost any knowledge of the abuses by the writer, who has written and spoke openly about his pedophilia since the 1970s and even dedicated a book to him.Instead, Mr. Girard said he had discovered Mr. Matzneff’s abuses only after reading “Le Consentement,’’ or “Consent,” which was published in early January. A partir d’ara, els dietaris de l’escriptor Gabriel Matzneff només es podran trobar a les llibreries de vell. I think he’s somewhat aware of the harm he’s caused me.’’Please enter your username or email address to reset your password. Cette quatrième de couverture est signée par l'auteur du livre, accusé, notamment pour son oeuvre, de prosélytisme pédophile.] Mr. Matzneff, who has been in hiding in the Italian Riviera and did not appear in court, was accused of defending and justifying pedophilia […] Mr. Matzneff, who has been in hiding within the Italian Riviera and didn’t seem in court docket, was accused of defending and justifying pedophilia by way of his many books and public appearances, in keeping with the case filed by l’Ange Bleu, an anti-pedophilia group. Grâce à Shakespeare, ils sont certainement les plus célèbres, les plus appréciés et les plus ancrés dans les mémoires depuis des siècles...Les cookies assurent le bon fonctionnement de Babelio. Rejoignez Babelio pour découvrir vos prochaines lectures He said he now regretted not having spoken out against the writer, though he said other government officials, including culture ministers, were also silent.“Why should I have been the white knight of French morality?’’ he said.Since the mid-1970s, Mr. Matzneff had written extensively and talked openly, on television and in countless written interviews, about engaging in sex tourism with boys in the Philippines and about what he described as great love affairs with a series of girls in their early teens in France.In 1974, Mr. Matzneff published a full-throated defense of pedophilia titled “Mr. The next morning Mr. Girard, who had previously rejected interview requests by The Times, offered to talk.He did so for two hours on Friday, and used the time to deflect the revelations that have threatened to undermine his candidacy in the elections, scheduled for March 15, as part of the Paris en Commun group of According to recent polls for the first round of voting, Mayor Hidalgo, a Socialist, has slipped to second place behind Rachida Dati, a candidate of the Republicans, a party on the right.Feeling that he had become a “liability,’’ Mr. Girard said he volunteered to withdraw from the electoral contest — but that his offer had been refused by the Paris en Commun’s campaign manager.The campaign of Paris en Commun said in a statement Friday that Mr. Girard remained a candidate because he had simply been called as a witness in a judicial case that has nothing to do with the political group.Since the publication of “Le Consentement,’’ France has been roiled by revelations about the longstanding support the writer received by a cross-section of the French elite.In 1986, as a then top aide of the designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, Mr. Girard helped arrange payment for a hotel where Mr. Matzneff stayed for two years.Mr. The book On Wednesday, Mr. Girard was questioned as a witness for four hours by detectives now “It’s horrible,’’ said Mr. Girard, who oversees culture for the Paris government.His four-hour questioning by the police on Wednesday came at a particularly bad time, as he campaigns for municipal councilor in Paris. When she turned 14, they became involved sexually for two years, according to her account and Matzneff’s own diary of the era, “La prunelle des mes yeux,” (“The apple of my eye”). Matzneff, Ardisson, Beigbeder : "Se taper des gamines de 12 ans ½". Gabriel Matzneff (born August 12, 1936), is a French writer.