Olivier Duhamel radiated by Paris Bar

According to the information of the “World”, the lawyer, accused of incest and covered by disciplinary proceedings by his peers, was sanctioned Tuesday, October 12 by the Council of the Parisian Order. And this despite its resignation in the summer.

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The shock wave caused by the accusations of incest aimed at the lawyer and political scientist Olivier Duhamel extends to the Bar of Paris. According to the information of the world, the Council of the Capital Lawyers decided on Tuesday, October 12, by a decree, to Randier M. Duhamel, 71, accused of violating his son-son in the 1980s . This sanction follows the disciplinary procedure undertaken since February by the Ordinary Instance against the former European member (Socialist Party).

This instruction was to determine whether Olivier Duhamel, who was sworn in December 2010, “concealed or lied or saying things that are not accurate,” said Paris, “said the Bâtonnier of Paris. / sup> Olivier Cousi. The disciplinary file had been entrusted to training training, which was supposed to make a report. Disciplinary training then had to study the said report and proceed in a contradictory way.

Despite the resignation of Mr. Duhamel du Barreau de Paris, in July, the disciplinary proceedings followed his course. Especially since it is not subject to the prescription rules of the facts applying to judicial records.

De facto, the radiation of Mr. Duhamel means he will no longer be able to re-register at the Paris Bar. In 2011, he had joined the cabinet of his friend Jean Veil, whom he was statutory nor the partner nor the collaborator. In the world, M e Jean Veil had said they were informed of these accusations of incest “between 2008 and 2011”.

Facts recognized by the ex-lawyer

Mr. Duhamel’s lawyer, M e Frédérique Beaulieu, did not wish to react. “I am surprised at the method of radiating a lawyer while he has already resigned,” says one of the influential members of the Board of the Order. At the Paris Bar, on the contrary, it is explained that the disciplinary procedure can punish a person who is no longer a lawyer. The reasoned decision of disciplinary training is supposed to remain confidential.

In a book published in January, the Familia Grande (threshold), the lawyer Camille Kouchner accused his father-in-law for sexually assisting his twin brother, nicknamed “Victor” in the book, when he was a teenager in the 1980s. The parquet of Paris had opened, in January, a preliminary investigation for “rape and sexual assault per person with a 15-year minor”.

Then, “Victor” Kouchner, 45, had filed a complaint, in January, against Mr. Duhamel. It had been heard by the police from the minor protection brigade (BPM) in charge of the investigation. His father-in-law was also interviewed, in April, as “free suspect”. According to AFP, Mr. Duhamel would have recognized “hardly” the facts during his hearing.

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