Last month, students formally called for his resignation.
It is now done.
Frédéric Mion, the director of Sciences Po Paris, presented his resignation on Tuesday, according to information from BFMTV.
The pressure was strong on the 51-year-old senior official, who had ended up conceding having been aware of the charges of incest targeting Olivier Duhamel, then in charge of the institute of political studies of the establishment.
In an open letter published on the Liberation website, more than 500 students, professors and employees of Sciences-po had requested his departure.
Frédéric Mion himself would have alerted Marc Guillaume
During the revelation of the content of the work of Camille Kouchner, the beautiful daughter of Olivier Duhamel who accused the latter of having abused her brother when he was only 13 years old, Frédéric Mion had in a first time expressed his amazement.
He ended up admitting to the newspaper Le Monde that he had been made aware of the charges of incest which weighed on the constitutionalist.
He then assured to have contacted a relative of Olivier Duhamel, who would have certified that the rumors were unfounded.
According to an investigation published on Tuesday by the weekly Marianne, the former secretary general of the government and current prefect of Île-de-France Marc Guillaume admitted that he had been informed twice of “sexual problems” concerning Duhamel.
“But no incest,” he told investigators from the National Education inspection mission.
He had resigned the day after leaving the Duhamel affair from his duties at Sciences Po Paris.
He claims to have been alerted for the first time in 2018 by Frédéric Mion, after a lunch with Aurélie Filippetti, former Minister of Culture, herself informed by two of her friends.
Until now, Frédéric Mion had never confirmed having himself alerted Marc Guillaume.
The latter sat on the board of directors of the National Foundation for Political Science, chaired for a time by Olivier Duhamel with whom he had befriended.
In the aftermath of the public revelations of the charges of incest brought against Olivier Duhamel, Marianne assures us that Frédérique Mion would have phoned Aurélie Filippetti twice.
"We must not think that we knew," he would have told her the first time.
During the second phone call, he would have asked him "not to confirm that Marc Guillaume was aware".