The Paris prosecutor’s office announced the news on Monday in a press release.
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The facts are too old. The investigation for rape and sexual assault on a minor targeting former minister Nicolas Hulot has been dismissed due to the prescription, announced Monday, September 12 the Paris prosecutor’s office in a press release.
The investigation was opened on November 26, 2021 after the broadcast of a documentary in “Special Envoy”, in which six women accused Nicolas Hulot of sexual violence which allegedly took place between 1989 and 2001. One of them was a minor. at the time of the facts that she denounced, an attempt at forced fellatio at the exit of a program that Nicolas Hulot presented on France Inter.
Anticipating the broadcast of this documentary, the former Minister of Ecology had refuted the accusations the day before, November 24, 2021, on BFMTV. “Neither near nor far did I commit these acts, these claims are false”he said. “I never forced anyone”he added, announcing to leave “definitely public life”.