The most sordid sexual scandals, from abuse to incest, muddy French political, artistic and cultural life in a very bad way, unearthing sinister landscapes strewn with misery.
On the right, Georges Tron, former Conservative MP, former mayor, former Secretary of State for Civil Service, has been sentenced to three years in prison, two years in prison with remission of sentence, for sexual abuse and violence that ended in rape. Tron took advantage of his political position to abuse his secretaries, with ‘games’ between fetishists and sadomasochists. On the left, the sinister incest scandal of Olivier Duhamel, one of the ‘pontiffs’ of institutional political thought, an eminent figure of the historic ‘caviar left’, is causing an unprecedented storm in ‘Sciences Po’, the school of the French political elites, where numerous ‘progressive’ personalities were aware of Duhamel’s sinister incest stories, silenced even by his wife, Fidel Castro’s former lover.
In the mayoralty of Paris, the political ambitions of Anne Hidalgo, as a candidate for the socialist candidacy for the presidential election, are threatened by a succession of sexual scandals, carried out by several members of her team, involved in very diverse scandals: protection and friendship with a famous pedophile writer, abuse of functions harassing subordinates Other cases. In the theater and film scene, the scandal of the actor Richard Berry, accused of pedophilia against one of his daughters and physical violence against some of his companions, occupies radio and television broadcasts at all hours, where supporters and adversaries of the actor launch bitter accusations and confessions.
The provisional arrest of Dominique Boutonnat, president of the Center National du Cinéma (CNC), denounced by his 22-year-old godson of sexual harassment, violence, and attempted rape, has caused a deep stupor when public interventions by actors and actresses multiplied who consider themselves victims of very different abuses
On the literary scene, Gabriel Matzneff’s self-published book, defending his pedophilia, and still recent books by Emmanuel Carrère and Rafael Enthoven, recounting the sexual intimacies of wives and bedmates, has been feeding the newest vein of ‘soft’ porn for several months. ‘testimonial literature’, descending below the navel.
Mantle of silence, All these scandals have ‘corporate’ origins, which the various ‘unions’ try to quell, by all means.
On the right, ‘The Republicans’ (LR, Nicolas Sarkozy’s party) wants nothing to do with the conviction of a former important center-right figure, Georges Tron, imprisoned for sex crimes. The conservative party wants to avoid that this trial could splash other more or less well-known characters. On the left, the PS tries, by all means, to prevent it from being remembered that Olivier Duhamel, the ultra-famous and influential pedophile, was one of the great thinkers of French ‘caviar socialism’. In the mayoralty of Paris, Anne Hidalgo tries expeditiously to bury the scandals under investigation. The world of cinema, theater, and literary life’ try to put a ‘firewall’ on the multiplication of scandals, presented as ‘individual’, ‘isolated cases’. The protagonists of this moral minefield are not international celebrities. His miseries, on the contrary, illuminate some very sordid metamorphoses and fringes of French political, cultural, and artistic life at the beginning of the 21st century.
