Jean-Claude Arnault
The king invited Arnault to dinner - in the middle of the Metoo scandal
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Oskar Forsberg
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The king invited Jean Claude Arnault to dinner in 2017 – after the revelations about the sexual abuse.
This is evident in the new book Le Doute, which deals with the cultural profile.
The court confirms that Arnault was invited, but he did not attend the dinner.
In
the fall of 2017, during #Metoo, DN published an examination of
Jean-Claude Arnault, the so-called "Kulturprofilen", and his culture
club Forum.
18 women testified that they had been subjected to sexual harassment by him.
Cultural
profile Jean-Claude Arnault was sentenced to prison for rape in the
district court. Here he is before the proceedings in the Svea Court of
Appeal. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT
DN's reporter Matilda Voss Gustavsson later wrote the book "Klubben" about the sex scandal surrounding the Swedish Academy.
Now there is a new book about the cultural profile and about the events of 2017.
It is Jean-Claude Arnault's friend Basile Panurgias who wrote the book Le Doute {"The Doubt")
Cover of the book Le Doute by Basile Panurgias.
Was invited to dinner by the king
In the book, the author states that Jean-Claude Arnault and the king were good friends.
“I
asked you if you associated with Carl XVI Gustaf, knowing that, having
been decorated with the Order of the North Star, you must have met him.
But I was surprised to hear that you knew him so well," he writes.
Basile
Panurgias also describes that Jean-Claude Arnault was invited to dinner
by the king. He must have become so in connection with the Japanese
writer Kazuo Ishiguro being awarded the Nobel Prize in early December
2017.
That is, a few weeks after DN's revelation about the sexual assaults.
Queen Silvia and Carl XVI Gustaf in July 2017. Photo: CAROLINA BYRMO
"I
understood the bond that Carl XVI Gustaf and you had when, at the worst
moment of the scandal, during the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Kazuo
Ishiguro, you received a message from the court about an invitation to
the king's dinner," writes Basile Panurgias.
"Yes,
Basile, the Nobel banquet is a big publicized party, but the place
where it really happens is the king's dinner," Arnault is said to have
said, according to the author.
Jean
Claude Arnault and Academy member Katarina Frostenson at the King's
Nobel Dinner at Stockholm Palace in 2011. Photo: HENRIK MONTGOMERY / TT
Court: "Did not participate"
Around forty people are said to have been invited to the king's party in 2017, Panurgias writes in his book.
Margareta
Thorgren, the court's information manager, tells Aftonbladet that the
information about the king's invitation is correct.
-
Every year on December 11, the day after the Nobel dinner, the king
invites the Nobel laureates and also members of the various academies.
Every two years, the members' respective relatives are also invited.
2017 was such a year. Academy member Katarina Frostenson and others were
invited, but declined and did not attend the dinner, she says.
Was it appropriate to invite him to dinner, given what had happened?
- I want to point out that it is the members who are invited and according to tradition, every two years.
As
for Basile Panurgia's information that the king and Jean-Claude Arnault
must have been good friends, according to Margareta Thorgren, it is
extraneous information.
- That is not true, she says.
Jean-Claude Arnault during the trial in 2018. Photo: PONTUS ORRE
Sentenced to prison for rape
The
accusations in 2017 eventually led to the Swedish Academy ending all
cooperation with Arnault. It was stated that, in addition to DN's
review, it was also due to his behavior towards members, members'
daughters, members' wives and staff at the Academy's office.
Jean-Claude Arnault was indicted the following year, suspected of two counts of rape.
He was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison by the Svea Court of Appeal in December 2018.
Jean-Claude Arnault received the Order of the North Star from the King in 2015.
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