ETIKA 022

COHN-BENDIT, Daniel

www.etika.com
24.2.2001

22COHNB1

Pädophile Äußerungen

 

Calls for legal child sex rebound on luminaries of May 68: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Kouchner, Lang
24.2.2001 www.guardian.co.uk (Vorsicht, Systemabsturz möglich)

APA/AFP/Dolomiten, Bozen, 24.2.2001 http://www.dolomiten.it/

 Studentenführer der 68er Jahre und prominenter deutsch-französischer grüner Politiker Daniel Cohn-Bendit in der Schusslinie – Vorwurf der pädophilen Äußerungen in einem „Buch, das er vor 25 Jahren schrieb und in dem er sich freimütig über sexuelle Erlebnisse mit Kindern ausließ“.

Le Quotidien/Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 23.2.2001 http://quotidien.nouvelobs.com

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, député européen et ancien leader du mouvement de mai 1968 en France, a demandé, jeudi
soir, sur TF1, que l´on arrête la ˝chasse à l´homme˝.

La Libération, Paris, 23.2.2001 / TF1 22.2.2001 www.liberation.fr

˝Cohn-Bendit a-t-il eu un passé pédophile?˝, se demandait hier TF1 sur son site web.

L´Express, Paris, 22/02/2001 http://www.lexpress.fr/Express/Info/france/Dossier/cohn/dossier.asp?id=231580

… quelques écrits, parmi d'autres, signés de la main de Daniel Cohn-Bendit en 1975, à propos de ses activités d'éducateur dans un jardin d'enfants autogéré, à Francfort: «Il m'était arrivé plusieurs fois que certains gosses ouvrent ma braguette et commencent à me chatouiller. Je réagissais de manière différente selon les circonstances, mais leur désir me posait un problème. Je leur demandais: "Pourquoi ne jouez-vous pas ensemble, pourquoi vous m'avez choisi, moi, et pas les autres gosses? " Mais s'ils insistaient, je les caressais quand même.»

Ailleurs, Daniel Cohn-Bendit raconte: «Mon flirt permanent avec tous les gosses prenait vite des formes d'érotisme. Je sentais vraiment que les petites filles, à 5 ans, avaient déjà appris comment m'emmener en bateau, me draguer. C'est incroyable. La plupart du temps, j'étais désarmé.»

L'hebdomadaire britannique The Observer a publié ces extraits choquants sur une page pleine, le 28 janvier dernier. Trois quotidiens, depuis, leur ont consacré un article: l'anglais The Independent , l'italien La Repubblica et l'allemand Bild.

The Observer, London, The Guardian, January 28, 2001 www.newsunlimited.co.uk - www.guardian.co.uk
Leading Green MEP insists erotic descriptions in magazine were pure fantasy, reports Kate Connolly

A respected Green MEP and leading figure of the Sixties protest movement has admitted to The Observer that he wrote an article claiming he had sexual contact with very young children. Daniel Cohn-Bendit, MEP for the French Greens, wrote about how flirtatious encounters in the early Seventies with children in his care as young as five had taken on 'erotic characteristics' and soon developed into more intimate contact from which he did not walk away.

When confronted last week with the article, which appeared in the August 1976 edition of the racy, now defunct cultural-political magazine das da, Cohn-Bendit said what he had written was 'unacceptable and unbearable'. The article was a spin-off from a best-selling book, The Big Madness, that Cohn-Bendit wrote in 1975 about child education. The book drew on his two-year experience working in a Frankfurt kindergarten with children aged from two to five. In the article, he wrote:

'My constant flirt with all the children soon took on erotic characteristics. I could really feel how from the age of five the small girls had already learnt to make passes at me. It's hardly believable. Most of the time I was fairly defenceless.'

Later he added:

'It has happened to me several times that a few children opened the flies of my trousers and started to stroke me. I reacted differently each time according to the circumstances, but their desire confronted me with problems. I asked them: "Why don't you play with each other, why have you chosen me and not other children?" But when they insisted on it, I then stroked them. For that reason I was accused of perverted behaviour.'