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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed Jun 13, 2018, 05:29 AM Jun 2018

Jean-Claude Arnault, photographer in Nobel prize scandal, charged with rape

A French photographer at the heart of a scandal that saw this year's Nobel Prize for Literature postponed has been charged with rape.

Jean-Claude Arnault, who was charged with two counts of rape dating back to 2011, denies the allegations.
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He denied all the alleged incidents, many of which were said to have happened at properties owned by the Academy or at his literary club.
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The same month, it voted against removing Mr Arnault's wife, the poet and writer Katarina Frostenson, from its 18-person committee.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44457001

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Jean-Claude Arnault, photographer in Nobel prize scandal, charged with rape (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 OP
this is one reason Trump will never win the nobel peace prize JI7 Jun 2018 #1

JI7

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1. this is one reason Trump will never win the nobel peace prize
Wed Jun 13, 2018, 06:25 AM
Jun 2018

besides the fact that he has not and will never do anything close to deserving it and in fact only doing the opposite.

Trump has admitted to and bragged about sexual assault.

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