Days go by … and tongues are loosened. One week after the shock wave caused by the article in World about the accusations made by Camille Kouchner against her former stepfather, Olivier Duhamel, new testimonies are gradually feeding the case. Indeed, on January 7, 2021, Camille Kouchner, daughter of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner, publishes her book called La Familia Grande in which she evokes the numerous sexual abuses committed by the political scientist on one of her brothers. According to the lawyer, his siblings would have bathed in an "incestuous climate" for many years, punctuated by the sexual assaults of the constitutionalist carried out on the sly. If the author affirms that a real "omertà" was forged around the actions of Olivier Duhamel, in reality, it is not.
Indeed, as she explains in the pages of World, much of his family knew about what had happened in that famous bedroom in Sanary's house in the 1980s. However, nobody ever said anything, except Marie-France Pisier, found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool between the bars of a chair a few months later. Almost thirty years after the alleged facts, Camille Kouchner therefore decided to do justice to her brother and tell his story. The end of a silence that prompted others to speak up …
"He told me he had done terrible things, that's the word he used"
In its edition of January 12, 2021, Release relates the words of a certain Laurent Bigorgne, who has been none other than the director of the Institut Montaigne for more than ten years. The latter knows Olivier Duhamel very well since the political scientist accused of incest was a member of the management committee of the Institut Montaigne for many years at his side. "Olivier Duhamel called me on January 3 to tell me. He did not deny or seek to minimize. He told me he had done 'awful' things, that's the word he used ", he declared, without specifying whether or not he was aware of these hallway noises … He is not the only one to have been suspected of complicity with the former director of the National Foundation of Political Sciences.
Indeed, Frédéric Mion, Director of Sciences-Po, was forced to report to the students at his school who requested his resignation. In an email communicated internally, the latter, who worked with Olivier Duhamel for nearly ten years, admitted that he had been made aware of the alleged facts a year ago. However, Frédéric Mion, first "shocked and devastated", had finally considered "the case closed" feeling that he was "in the presence of a rumor which had no basis ". A case which will be returned to the hands of justice since the Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for "rape and sexual assault by a person having authority over a 15-year-old minor". Olivier Duhamel has already chosen his defense, Me Frédérique Baulieu, one of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lawyers in charge of the Carlton de Lille case.
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