PARIS, December 12 French writer Frederic Beigbeder was summoned for questioning and detained as part of a rape investigation, radio station Franceinfo reports.
““On Tuesday, the writer was placed in custody as part of a preliminary investigation into a rape case,” the radio reports, citing police sources.
According to media reports, a complaint against the writer was received in the summer from a young woman. According to her, she had sexual relations with the writer twice: the first time by mutual consent, the second time on the same night without her consent.
Earlier, radio station France Bleu reported that French writer Frederic Beigbeder was placed in custody.
Beigbeder was born in 1965 in the city of Nain-sur-Seine near Paris. He received a diploma from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and then a diploma in advertising and marketing from the Ecole Supérieure de l'Information et de la Communication (CELSA). He worked for the large advertising agency Young and Rubicam, and was a literary critic for Elle, Paris Match and other magazines.
His novel “99 Francs,” a sharp denunciation of the advertising business, became the leader in book sales in France in 2000. Begbeder is the author of the works “Love Lives for Three Years”, “Windows on the World”, “Romantic Egoist”, “Holidays in a Coma”, “Stories on Ecstasy” and others. Beigbeder also founded the literary prize, which was awarded, in particular, to the books of Michel Houellebecq and Virginie Depant.
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