For several years, the Dijon political scientist Claude Patriat has had a very personal relationship with Twitter. A social network on which he shares his thoughts every day. Like Tuesday evening, when he commented on the case concerning another political scientist, Olivier Duhamel, who notably taught at the University of Besançon. Which is accused, in the book La Familia Grande, by Camille Kouchner, of having had incestuous behavior towards his 13-year-old stepson at the end of the 1980s.
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“The sinister conduct of Grenoble (an expression synonymous with public lynching, Editor’s note) made to Olivier Duhamel and which comes after other late denouncements, shows one thing: the young generation wants to take revenge on our generation and symbolically destroy it. She does not forgive us either our carelessness or our inventiveness, ”wrote Claude Patriat. A tweet since deleted by its author. Because barely posted, the text aroused the ire of many Internet users, who believed that Claude Patriat compared the charges against Olivier Duhamel to “recklessness” and “inventiveness”.
“Apology for incest and pedophilia, how much will it take? “, Wondered for example the Dijonnais Alexandre Emorine, former member of rebellious France. While reporting the publication to the national police.
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Claude Patriat: “I am against revenge and for justice”
Contacted Wednesday morning, Claude Patriat ensures that his tweet did not mention the facts alleged against Olivier Duhamel, son of Jacques Duhamel, former member of Jura and former mayor of Dole. But just the way they were presented to the public. “I deleted it when I saw it turned out like this. On the other hand, I do not see where I spoke of incest and pedophilia. I spoke about the methods which consist in denouncing an individual, as it is done too much now ”, explains the one who teaches political science at the University of Burgundy.
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“All of this is part of a war between generations. And that’s all I wanted to say. They don’t forgive us for what we have been, for having benefited from a time when we were carefree. Afterwards, if people do not know what a “driving of Grenoble” is, my faith… To be treated of brainless by imbeciles, it is a pleasure of gourmet. “
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“Then, I am obviously not in favor of practices such as incest or pedophilia. But what I find dramatic – and I happen to know Olivier Duhamel well – is that his daughter-in-law could have written this in a book, without even having spoken to him about it before. Afterwards, it’s a family affair, dramatic, tragic. It is thrown into the public square for a very unhealthy purpose. We screw up men and reputations beyond all justice. And it’s called revenge. I am against revenge and for justice. “
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