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Matzneff affair: Christophe Girard, assistant to the town hall of Paris, heard by the investigators

2020-03-04T14:30:34.861Z


According to our information, Anne Hidalgo's cultural assistant has been auditioned since this Wednesday afternoon. He had settled guest rooms


The investigation into the pedophile actions of the writer Gabriel Matzneff takes an unexpected detour ... by the Paris city hall. According to concordant sources, Christophe Girard, Anne Hidalgo's assistant in charge of culture, has been heard since this Wednesday afternoon by the police from the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against Persons (OCRVP) as a witness.

The investigators want to question the former socialist mayor of the 4th arrondissement about his links with Gabriel Matzneff, targeted by a preliminary investigation for "rapes of minors" since the publication of a damning book written by one of his former young lovers, Vanessa Springora.

"He is not a close friend, it is a friendly relationship," defended Christophe Girard in an interview given to our newspaper about his links with the sulfur writer. I had to dine with him three or four times in thirty years. He says that I am one of his best friends. It's a bit excessive. "

Notes settled "at the request of Yves Saint Laurent"

The name of Christophe Girard appears in the investigation because he would have settled hotel rooms for Gabriel Matzneff in the 80s while the writer took refuge there to discreetly meet Vanessa Springora, still a minor. At the time, he was already in the crosshairs of the police of the juvenile brigade.

The elected socialist, who was not yet at the town hall of Paris, would have carried out these logistical tasks at the request of Yves Saint Laurent, of which he was the personal assistant. The designer has long been called the benefactor of Gabriel Matzneff, who enjoyed a certain aura in the intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris.

The police therefore seek to know if Christophe Girard was aware of the pedophile acts of Gabriel Matzneff and if, possibly, he was able to cross paths with other potential victims.

"Yes, I took care of his hotel room," the elected socialist admitted to our newspaper. At the time, I did not know that he was trying to escape the juvenile brigade. He was leaving the hospital, Pierre Bergé had told me (note: Yves Saint Laurent's companion). As Vanessa Springora writes, whose book upset and enlightened me, he must have exaggerated his blindness. "

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Regarding the financial aid that benefited the sulfur writer, Christophe Girard added: "We didn't support him because he was a pedophile, but because he was a writer in difficulty. Pedophilia is something that Yves Saint Laurent was repugnant to. "

Since the start of the investigation, the OCRVP police have been looking for new testimonies likely to incriminate Gabriel Matzneff and have multiplied hearings and searches. Because the facts denounced by Vanessa Springora in her book "The Consent", namely a bond under the influence between a teenage girl and an adult, have been analyzed legally and are prescribed. This is why the Paris public prosecutor's office recently launched an appeal for witnesses. Gabriel Matzneff has never been a victim of justice since the start of his career, despite his overtly pedophile writings.

The editor Christian Giudicelli and Philippe Sollers also heard

According to our information, the investigators also heard in February Christian Giudicelli, editor and friend of Gabriel Matzneff, as well as Philippe Sollers, writer crowned with several literary distinctions. The first was also searched.

In an interview with the New York Times, Gabriel Matzneff had indeed revealed that Christian Giudicelli had agreed to hide compromising documents from the sulphurous writer, in particular letters and photos of Vanessa Springora. According to a source close to the investigations, Giudicelli and Sollers did not deliver anything useful to the investigation, and expressed their incomprehension, believing that their friend Matzneff had done nothing reprehensible.

In order to identify potential victims or new facts, the police are also looking for several Gabriel Matzneff manuscripts that have not been published or original writings that have not been redacted after re-reading. This is why they conducted a series of searches at Gallimard, in a warehouse where literary archives are stored, at the Parisian home of Gabriel Matzneff as well as in the writer's hotel room in the Italian hotel where he s has been a refugee since the scandal.

Source: leparis

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