In France, incest is legal unless children are involved, but Adrien Taquet, the secretary of state for children, said the government wanted to criminalise incestuous relationships.
One in 10 French people claim to have been the victims of incest, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos in November 2020. Such surveys over the years show the. 12.01.2022, Sputnik International
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image captionOlivier Duhamel was one the most prominent political pundits on French TV
One of France s most high-profile political scientists and media figures, Olivier Duhamel, has admitted that he sexually abused his stepson decades ago, French media reports say.
The accusation first emerged in a book by his stepdaughter, Camille Kouchner, which was published in January.
She said her twin had been abused as a young teenager over two or three years.
Mr Duhamel cannot now be prosecuted as the statute of limitations for rape and sexual abuse has lapsed.
However, the 70 year old was questioned by police on Tuesday, in an inquiry opened by prosecutors to identify any other victims.
Second MeToo wave crashes over France after explosive book
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In a book of over 200 pages, the shocking revelations about incest feature on only around a dozen of them, but their impact is still being felt in France more than six weeks after publication.
The book La familia grande by Camille Kouchner initially sent shockwaves through the close-knit intellectual world of Left Bank Paris, but has since led to multiple police investigations and another national reckoning with sexual abuse.
Just over three years since the #MeToo movement broke taboos around rape across the world, France is seeing another outpouring of stories and a wide-ranging debate about sex, power and consent.
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