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Bernard Pivot “regrets” for “not having had the right words”


Bernard Pivot, former television host – SYSPEO / SIPA

Ex-TV host Bernard Pivot, accused of complacency with the writer
Gabriel Matzneff when he openly displayed his attraction to
teens, said on Monday his “regrets” believing that he did not have at the time “the right words”.

“Host of literary programs on television, I would have needed a lot of lucidity and a great strength of character to escape the excesses of a freedom which my colleagues from the print media and the radio stations were just as accommodating”, explains Bernard Pivot in a text addressed to JDD, where he writes a column.

“These qualities, I did not have them”

“These qualities, I did not have them. I obviously regret it, having in addition the feeling of not having had the right words, “adds the former host ofapostrophes.

The self-proclaimed taste of Gabriel Matzneff, now 83, for young girls and boys has never made the publishing world go wild. But the release scheduled for January 2 of Consent, where editor Vanessa Springora describes how she was seduced by Gabriel Matzneff, almost 50, when she was 14 years old, is changing the game.

“The world of literature then judged itself above the law and morals”

For the past few days, a video by Bernard Pivot, quizzically questioning the writer on his sexual attraction for “under 16s” has caused scandal on social networks, almost thirty years after its publication.

“After May 68 whose main slogan was “it is forbidden to prohibit”, books like those of Gabriel Matzneff have been published without justice intervening, without even the associations for the defense of children and the family protesting ” , explains Bernard Pivot.

“We even saw the greatest writers of the time petitioning for the release of three men imprisoned for having sex with young adolescents. The world of books and literature then judged themselves above law and morality, ”he adds.

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