Camille Kouchner on Olivier Duhamel: "I do not forgive him"

We had only talked about her for a week, but we had never seen her before, other than a photo, or heard of her.

Camille Kouchner, the author of "La Familia grande", the shocking book of this new school year, on the rapes suffered by her twin brother then aged 14 by their stepfather, the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, was received this Wednesday evening by François Busnel in “La Grande Librairie”.

Alone for fifty minutes, before being joined in the second part of the show by a psychiatrist, a judge and a philosopher.

Facing the interviewer, this elegant woman with light eyes, smiling, in jeans and blouse, seems at ease.

We can see his stress in a wide shot, in his arms crossed under his knee, as we protect ourselves.

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Camille Kouchner did not mention the name of her "father-in-law" once, nor did she write it in his book, but the photo of Olivier Duhamel, at the start of the show, is huge poster in the studio.

This powerful man, “this solar character”, the little girl she was “loved very, very much, very much”, before everything broke up in third grade, when her brother confided in her the rapes.

Questioned by François Busnel, she said of the one who was still a figure of Europe 1 and LCI a fortnight ago: “He lives outside this reality.

He seems to be doing very well.

I find that unfair.

I do not forgive him.

I would like him to hear that it is unforgivable, and that it will last a lifetime.

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For her father, the former minister Bernard Kouchner, scratched in the story for his absences and his anger, she has reconciled words: “Since he understood that his absence harmed us, he is there.

There is hope.

With my father, there are really very beautiful things there.

"A reassurance also when she mentions her mother, the great intellectual and pioneer of feminism Evelyne Pisier, who died in 2017, who minimized or even denied incest when she learned about it in 2008:" I saw her do it. reverse of what she had professed.

I think she died of grief, and knew very well what she had done to her children.

This book allowed me to be angry with her and love her immensely.

"The writing of this story, confides Camille Kouchner," gave him back the right to happiness.