The former television host and former minister for the ecological transition, Nicolas Hulot, is heard, Tuesday, May 24 in free hearing, by the investigators of the brigade for the protection of minors in Paris on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, a confirmed the prosecution, requested by Agence France-Presse.
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation for rape and sexual assault on November 26, 2021 after the broadcast on France 2 of a “Special Envoy” investigation. In this document, six women accused Nicolas Hulot of sexual violence committed between 1989 and 2001. One of them, a minor at the time of the facts denounced, had then filed a complaint.
Three of them testified to facts ranging from surprise kisses to an attempt at forced fellatio which would have been imposed on one of them, a minor at the time. A fourth, environmental activist Claire Nouvian, said she had been warned by those around her. ” Politics “ by Nicolas Hulot, before filming in 2008, so that she avoids being alone with him.
Two other women, former host Maureen Dor and a former TF1 employee, had delivered their testimony by mail, also accusing the former host of the famous show “Ushuaïa”.
Anticipating the broadcast of this documentary, the former Minister of Ecology had refuted the accusations the day before, November 24, 2021, on BFM TV. “Neither near nor far, I committed these acts, these assertions are false”he said. “I have never forced anyone”he added, announcing to leave “definitely public life”.
Appointed Minister of Ecological Transition during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, he resigned at the end of August 2018, denouncing the lack of progress on the environment.
The weekly Ebdo had revealed a few months earlier that the ex-host had been the subject in 2008 of a complaint for a rape committed in 1997, dismissed due to prescription. The complainant turned out to be Pascale Mitterrand, granddaughter of François Mitterrand. Nicolas Hulot had also rejected these accusations.