Le barreau de Paris a radié mardi 12 octobre le politologue Olivier Duhamel, qui était aussi avocat, accusé d'inceste envers son beau-fils à la fin des années 1980, a appris l'AFP vendredi de source proche du dossier, confirmant une information du Monde.
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The Bar Association voted on Tuesday, February 16, to open a disciplinary investigation against Olivier Duhamel. It was a question of seeing if this one had "
concealed or lied or said things which are not exact
" during his taking of the oath, had specified to AFP the president of Paris, Me Olivier Cousi.
Two days later, Olivier Duhamel had handed in his resignation to the Paris bar, which had been recorded on March 9, said this source.
He has been presented as "
non-exercising
" since February 18 on the bar website.
Having taken the oath in December 2010, Olivier Duhamel had joined the firm of lawyer Jean Veil.
Au
Monde
, the latter assured to have been informed of these charges of incest "
between 2008 and 2011
".
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In a book published in early January, "
La Familia grande
", Camille Kouchner accuses her stepfather Olivier Duhamel of having sexually assaulted his twin brother when he was a teenager.
The Paris prosecutor's office had opened a preliminary investigation on January 5 for "
rape and sexual assault by a person having authority over a 15-year-old minor
".
It was dismissed in mid-June on the sole ground that the facts are prescribed.
The political scientist had resigned from all his functions: in addition to the chairmanship of the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP), which oversees
Sciences Po
, he also left that of the influence club "
Le Siècle
" and stopped his broadcasts on
LCI
or
Europe 1
.