"It's like the Soviet Union," said the writer, whose parents were White Russian refugees.But French equality minister Marlene Schiappa said the problem with Matzneff "was not what he wrote but what he did".His case had exposed "major dysfunction" in French society, she said. "But he railed against the French government for threatening to take away his special pension.

Naturally, if I did something that was not good I regret it. "No One Said It Was A Crime": French Writer On Paedophile Sex In Asia French writer Gabriel Matzneff said in an interview Wednesday that he "regrets" his trips to Asia to have sex with children, claiming that at the time "no one ever said it was a crime". Girard was the mayor of Paris’s 4th arrondissement at the time. Girard said he was only an intermediary, acting on Mr. Bergé’s orders. He said he now regretted not having spoken out against the writer, though he said other government officials, including culture ministers, were also silent.“Why should I have been the white knight of French morality?’’ he said.Since the mid-1970s, Mr. Matzneff had written extensively and talked openly, on television and in countless written interviews, about engaging in sex tourism with boys in the Philippines and about what he described as great love affairs with a series of girls in their early teens in France.In 1974, Mr. Matzneff published a full-throated defense of pedophilia titled “Mr. In a recent interview with The Times, Mr. Matzneff said that thanks to Mr. Girard, he was able to stay for free at a hotel for two years with Ms. Springora, while he recovered from eye surgery. But nobody ever spoke of crime. Christophe Girard, a deputy mayor of Paris, disavowed years of association with the writer and said he learned only recently of the author’s abuses.PARIS — A powerful deputy mayor of Paris, who has been criticized for his links to the pedophile writer Despite a long association with the writer, the deputy mayor, Christophe Girard, in an interview with The New York Times, denied almost any knowledge of the abuses by the writer, who has written and spoke openly about his pedophilia since the 1970s and even dedicated a book to him.Instead, Mr. Girard said he had discovered Mr. Matzneff’s abuses only after reading “Le Consentement,’’ or “Consent,” which was published in early January. The next morning Mr. Girard, who had previously rejected interview requests by The Times, offered to talk.He did so for two hours on Friday, and used the time to deflect the revelations that have threatened to undermine his candidacy in the elections, scheduled for March 15, as part of the Paris en Commun group of According to recent polls for the first round of voting, Mayor Hidalgo, a Socialist, has slipped to second place behindFeeling that he had become a “liability,’’ Mr. Girard said he volunteered to withdraw from the electoral contest — but that his offer had been refused by the Paris en Commun’s campaign manager.The campaign of Paris en Commun said in a statement Friday that Mr. Girard remained a candidate because he had simply been called as a witness in a judicial case that has nothing to do with the political group.Since the publication of “Le Consentement,’’ France has been roiled by revelations about the longstanding support the writer received by a cross-section of the French elite.In 1986, as a then top aide of the designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, Mr. Girard helped arrange payment for a hotel where Mr. Matzneff stayed for two years.Mr. But Mr. Matzneff referred to Mr. Girard as his patron and dedicated to him his diary of that era, “The diary details Mr. Matzneff’s relationship with the 14-year-old Ms. Springora.“Me, I don’t remember ever having read it,’’ he said of the diary. "A tourist should not behave like that," the 83-year-old told a French television channel in Italy, where he has fled to escape the storm the revelations stirred.French publishing houses pulled his works from bookshops last month, a move that Matzneff has denounced as a "wave of neo-puritanism". Girard tried to minimize the extent of his relations with Mr. Matzneff, saying that he has never read even a single book by the author and that he had never gotten a hint of his pedophilia.“Maybe I’m a little naïve, and you might think otherwise,’’ Mr. Girard said.But while he initially said that he had first learned of Mr. Matzneff’s pedophilia on reading “Le Consentement,’’ he later said that he had heard of it in 2013, when Mr. Matzneff won a prestigious literary award — and some anti-pedophilia groups protested.Mr.

The book On Wednesday, Mr. Girard was questioned as a witness for four hours by detectives now “It’s horrible,’’ said Mr. Girard, who oversees culture for the Paris government.His four-hour questioning by the police on Wednesday came at a particularly bad time, as he campaigns for municipal councilor in Paris. Advertisement ................................"No One Said It Was A Crime": French Writer On Paedophile Sex In Asia © COPYRIGHT NDTV CONVERGENCE LIMITED 2020. "Matzneff never made any secret of his sexual preference for adolescent girls and boys and it did not stop him winning the Renaudot prize in 2013.He also was awarded major state honours in France: Officer of Arts and Letters and Knight of the Order of National Merit.And the writer even enjoyed a special pension and reduced rent for his apartment in a chic district of the French capital.The case has shone a light on what many see as an overly permissive attitude towards the sexual harassment and sexual abuse of children in France.In "Les Moins de Seize Ans", ("The Under 16s"), first published in 1974 and reissued in 2005, Matzneff was frank about indulging his obsession for underage partners and sex tourism.In the 1990s, he told French television that "a very young girl is rather sweeter, even if she becomes very quickly hysterical and just as crazy as she will be when she is older".But attitudes toward the writer changed dramatically after publisher Vanessa Springora revealed her tortured relationship with him in her book "Consent", published on January 2.She described how Matzneff, then in his fifties, would wait for her outside school and then take her to a hotel for sex.Matzneff denies any wrongdoing, insisting there was an "exceptional love" between him and Springora.During the interview with BFMTV, Matzneff insisted: "I never said anything nasty about her because she is a luminous person.

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