In a “Special Envoy” investigation broadcast in November 2021 on France 2, six women accused the ex-television entertainment and former Minister of Ecological Transition for Sexual Violence committed between 1989 and 2001.
Le Monde with AFP
The former television host and former Minister of Ecological Transition, Nicolas Hulot, is heard on Tuesday May 24 in free hearing, by investigators of the miners’ protection brigade in Paris on suspicions of rape and attacks sexual, confirmed the prosecution, requested by the agency France-Presse.
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary survey for rape and sexual assault on November 26, 2021 after the broadcast on France 2 of a “Special Envoy” investigation. In this document, six women accused Nicolas Hulot of sexual violence committed between 1989 and 2001. One of them, a minor at the time of the facts denounced, then filed a complaint.
Three of them testified to facts ranging from kisses by surprise to a forced fellatio attempt which would have been imposed on one of them, a minor at the time. A fourth, the environmental activist Claire Nouvian, said she was warned by the “political” entourage of Nicolas Hulot, before a shoot in 2008, so that she avoids being alone with him.
Two other women, former animator Maureen Dor and an ex-employee of TF1, had delivered their testimony by mail, also accusing the former host of the famous program “Ushuaïa”.
Stopping the broadcast of this documentary, the former Minister of Ecology had refuted the accusations the day before, November 24, 2021, on bfm-tv . “Neither near nor far, I did not commit these acts, these statements are false,” he said. “I have never forced anyone,” he added, announcing to leave “definitively public life”.
Named Minister of Ecological Transition during the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, he had resigned at the end of August 2018, by denouncing the lack of advances on the environment.
The weekly Ebdo had revealed a few months earlier that the ex-animator had been the subject in 2008 of a complaint for a rape committed in 1997, classified without follow-up due to prescription. The complainant had proven to be Pascale Mitterrand, granddaughter of François Mitterrand. Nicolas Hulot had also rejected these accusations.