The editions of the new bookstore, in Paris, explain that they have made this decision “for the physical security of [their] employees”.
Le Monde with AFP
The editions of the new bookstore had planned to publish on November 8, written before the massacre, a collection of articles written between 2015 and 2019, by Gabriel Matzneff, targeted by a minor rape investigation. The publishing house announced Monday October 24 that it temporarily renounced publishing the latest work of the writer, due to “death threats” made against his staff.
This publishing house, attached to the bookstore of the same name in the Latin district, in Paris, is defined as “hussar” in literature and “of the identity right, patriot” in politics.
“We are obliged to repel Sine Die the publication” of this title, she wrote in a statement on Monday. “Certain reactions are completely disproportionate. At a time when freedom of expression is dangerously declining, the new bookstore intends to guarantee it. It cannot however accept the serious death threats addressed to its staff, which it must protect “, she added.
claiming to have already been the target of acts of vandalism, the bookstore explained that “now, these degradations are coupled with a real danger”, and that it had made this decision “for the physical security of [its ] Employees “.
” Gabriel Matzneff no longer had any publisher “
According to the publisher, the collection to be published brought together “texts written between 2015 and 2019, either unpublished, or published in various press organs”, essentially Le Point magazine, where Gabriel Matzneff was a columnist. This author had obtained the Renaudot prize in the test in 2013 for a similar collection, Séraphin, it’s the end!
The writings gathered in this book were prior to the publication in January 2020 of the story The Consent, by Vanessa Springora, who had burst the scandal and encouraged the Paris prosecutor’s office to immediately open an investigation for rape on minors of 15 years . The author told how she had been seduced in the 1980s by the novelist when she was not 14 years old and her almost 50 years.
“Gabriel Matzneff, as we know, no longer had any publisher (…) by common friends, this book arrived with us. And we would not have wanted to praise the Pedophilia, “said Mr. Bousquet. After a final volume of his newspaper in 2019, and the launch of the judicial inquiry, Gabriel Matzneff had been released by his publisher, Gallimard. In 2021, he had a story to justify himself, entitled Vanessavirus.
Despite the means deployed to find facts not covered by the prescription, the investigation may lead to a dismissal, failing to be able to identify at least one recent victim of Mr. Matzneff.