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By AFP
September 25, 2020

PARIS: France has stripped paedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff of all state aid, the country’s culture minister said on Thursday. The controversial essayist, who never made a secret of his preference for s.x with adolescent girls and boys, is to stand trial next year on a charge of promoting paedophilia. “I can assure you that Gabriel Matzneff is no longer getting his grant,” Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot told the publishing weekly, Livres Hebdo.