Posted on 02/11/2020 6:00:02 AM PST by karpov
PARIS — Gabriel Matzneff, the French writer under investigation for his promotion of pedophilia, was holed up this month inside a luxury hotel room on the Italian Riviera, unable to relax, unable to sleep, unable to write.
He was alone and in hiding, abandoned by the same powerful people in publishing, journalism, politics and business who had protected him weeks earlier. He went outside only for solitary walks behind dark sunglasses, and was startled when I tracked him down in a cafe mentioned in his books.
“I feel like the living dead, a dead man walking, walking on the lungomare,” he said, referring in Italian to the seafront promenade, in a long conversation, after some persuading.
Hiding is new for Mr. Matzneff. For decades, he was celebrated for writing and talking openly about stalking teenage girls outside schools in Paris and having sex with 8-year-old boys in the Philippines.
He was invited to the Élysée Palace by President François Mitterrand and socialized with the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. He benefited from the largess of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, the business tycoon Pierre Bergé.
But Mr. Matzneff has been summoned to appear in a Paris court on Wednesday, accused of actively promoting pedophilia through his books. Mr. Matzneff could face up to five years in prison, yet the case is also an implicit indictment of an elite that furthered his career and swatted away isolated voices calling for his arrest.
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The support of Mr. Matzneff reflected an enduring French contradiction: a nation that is deeply egalitarian yet with an elite that often distinguishes itself from ordinary people through a different code of morality, a different set of rules, or at least believing it necessary to defend those who did.
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And ‘twould appear that the fellow slime at the NYT sympathize with this - er - person.
Liberals.
No lower limits. EVAH.
Just like Democrats.
Hopefully he gets sent up and he can live the hell he has put so many young boys and girls through by being someones butt boy
"The support of Mr. Matzneff reflected an enduring French contradiction: a nation that is deeply egalitarian yet with an elite that often distinguishes itself from ordinary people through a different code of morality, a different set of rules, or at least believing it necessary to defend those who did."
Unlike in our own fair and deeply egalitarian Republic.
s/
As an objective journalist, never let an opportunity to demonize someone you disagree with go to waste...
“He was invited to the Élysée Palace by President François Mitterrand and socialized with the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.”
Matzneff? Macht nix!
I noticed that too. This will end when he starts naming names of left-wing politicians and “journalists”.
... “I feel like the living dead, a dead man walking, walking on the lungomare,” he said, referring in Italian to the seafront promenade, in a long conversation, after some persuading.
You are Exactly that, a dead man walking
Repent, Find Jesus, Confess, Contrition, Penance
Walk with God, Read His Word
In a more just age, someone would have simply killed him ages ago.
I’m not for vigilante justice, but vigilante justice is much better than no justice at all.
His suffering makes me happy...
He’s going to get all the sex he can handle in prison.
If you read the whole piece he is indeed cast out of French literary society. It’s hard to believe it took so long.
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