PARIS: The granddaughter of former French president Francois Mitterrand confirmed Friday that she was the woman behind a two-decade-old rape claim embroiling popular environment minister Nicolas Hulot. Having been exposed by the Parisien newspaper, Pascale Mitterrand issued a statement corroborating a report which claimed she had filed a complaint against Hulot, a celebrity environmentalist and TV star, in 2008. But her lawyer Michel Dufranc stressed that “Pascale Mitterrand’s name has been linked without her consent to a media storm around Nicolas Hulot. She and her family in no way welcome this publicity.”
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