“Inappropriate behavior, stolen kisses…”: Julien Kouchner looks back on his childhood with Olivier Duhamel: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

It's a family affair, a terrible secret, which is making headlines in all the media today. On January 4, 2021, Camille Kouchner found the courage to publish her book La familia grande, in which she breaks the established omission around her stepfather's incestuous actions. The lawyer claims that Olivier Duhamel sexually abused his teenage twin brother on several occasions "for two or three years ”, at the end of the 80s. Since then, these revelations have caused a real scandal. In particular, we learned that many members of the political scientist's entourage had been informed of the rapes … but preferred to remain silent and protect him.

In her book, Camille Kouchner describes (with great accuracy) the mechanisms of silence and control often observed in cases of incest. But above all it portrays the atmosphere of absolute sexual freedom, a legacy of May-68, which reigned within the family and friends circle.

I remember a game of seduction with my mother's friends "

Sunday 24 January 2021, in the columns of Parisian, Julien Kouchner has agreed to look back on his adolescence spent alongside Olivier Duhamel. Camille Kouchner's brother – aged 17 when his mother, Evelyne Pisier, remarried the political scientist – confides in particular on this very libertarian atmosphere where nothing was too daring: "We can put the trial on an era, but here we are talking about criminal actions ", he reminds us. Moreover, for Julien Kouchner, nothing can justify the incest committed by his stepfather. “I remembera game of seduction with friends of my mother when I was a teenager ", he explains to our colleagues, before continuing: “There was surely inappropriate behavior, stolen kisses but nothing more. This has nothing to do with. What happened to my brother is a covered crime. ” If he is aware that “Many knew the actions” by Olivier Duhamel, brother of Camille and "Victor" Kouchner still believes that there is only one "criminal" in that case.

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