PARIS, Feb 14 — French police yesterday searched the home of a writer accused of raping a minor and who repeatedly described relationships with young teens in his work, a source said. Gabriel Matzneff, who has never made any secret of his preference for sex with adolescent girls and boys, is to...
French writer Gabriel Matzneff posing in the garden of the 'House of Writers' in Paris July 12, 1990. — AFP pic
Gabriel Matzneff, who has never made any secret of his preference for sex with adolescent girls and boys, is to stand trial this year on a charge of justifying paedophilia. Prosecutors on January 3 launched a rape investigation after a bombshell book by publisher Vanessa Springora claimed she had a sexual relationship with the author three decades ago, starting when she was 14.In the mid-1970s, he published a notorious essay calledIn an interview in 2008, he said he had “self-censored” certain portions of his writing he feared would be judged “especially scandalous,” and hid these away in a bank safe.
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