If you're only due to read one book this January back to school, this is it. Not just for the quality of the writing, but also for what it says. What he reveals about a famous French family says a lot about our society and the silence that reigns around incest. In La Familia Grande, published Thursday January 7, 2021 by Editions du Seuil, the lawyer Camille Kouchner accuses her father-in-law, the constitutionalist Olivier Duhamel, of having abused his twin brother – nicknamed "Victor" to protect his anonymity – during incestuous sexual assaults . The author writes in it that Olivier Duhamel subjected “Blowjobs” to his stepson from the age of 13, and this for several years. Camille Kouchner reveals that she and her two brothers, born from their mother Evelyne Pisier's first marriage to former Minister Bernard Kouchner, have long adored their stepfather. Present, warm, funny: Olivier Duhamel shone in front of his stepchildren, filling the absence of their biological father, described as being too busy. Olivier Duhamel also shone in the eyes of his wife Evelyne Pisier, who protected him until his death in 2017, “Giving up” his own children. Finally, Olivier Duhamel shone in the eyes of society, through his positions, his network and his close or distant entourage. Thursday January 14, The World, at the origin of the first revelations, revealed how the latter “Cultivated his art of secrecy”, Doing “Reign in silence by controlling your networks.” Among his network: the Macron couple. Shortly before her husband's election, Brigitte Macron had lunched with Olivier Duhamel, asking him for advice. Always according to The world, it is precisely this proximity that would prejudice the President today.
"A distancing as urgent as it is strategic"
"Since the 'Olivier Duhamel affair' broke in early January, Emmanuel Macron has been watching every one of its twists and turns like milk on the fire", note The world Monday 25 January. “The opprobrium which unanimously fell on the former president of the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP) and the search for accomplices in the silence that surrounded his behavior have imposed a distancing as urgent as it is strategic. Descriptions in the press of the extent of Olivier Duhamel's networks paralyzed both the Elysée and the former tenant of Matignon Edouard Philippe (…) Before celebrating the qualification of Emmanuel Macron for the second round of the presidential election, on April 23, 2017, at the La Rotonde brewery, he had sent several notes to the candidate and participated in a few campaign meetings . ” After the election, Olivier Duhamel would also have "passionate" for “This young President” who said to himself "neither on the right, nor on the left." Also according to the daily, the political scientist was consulted "On the first draft of a plan to fight secularism – the future bill against separatism – in the context of interviews organized by the Institut Montaigne and Laurent Bigorgne." Finally, in its last issue published on January 20, Paris Match says thatEmmanuel Macron, “Who was his student at Sciences Po (…) consults him (before the revelations, editor's note) also on institutional or more sensitive issues, such as the Benalla affair. ” No wonder, then, that the head of state wants to distance himself. On Saturday January 23, the President of the Republic spoke to victims of incest through a video posted on social networks. He notably announced his wish "To adapt our law to better protect", and let it be known that he had asked the Minister of Justice Eric Dupont-Moretti and the Secretary of State for Children and Families Adrien Taquet “To conduct a consultation which should quickly lead to proposals.”
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