Sylvain Tesson, godfather of the Spring of Poets, finally spoke on Sunday evening. “What is my crime and who are the judges?” » he asks on France 2.

The author of “The Snow Panther” is the target of a forum of 1,200 signatories. They accuse him of representing “the literary extreme right” and of conveying a “reactionary ideology’ The controversy caused the resignation of the artistic director of the event.