The brother of Yann Moix asks a right of reply to France 2 after the interview broadcast in "We are not lying" on Saturday night

"After speaking, especially on the show" We're not lying, "the author has chosen to stop the promotion of his book and to withdraw from the media," said the house Grasset in a statement addressed to AFP.

The 51-year-old writer has just published "Orleans" where he discusses the abuse he suffered during his childhood. His version of the facts was challenged by his father and younger brother who actually accuses the writer of being his hangman.

To this family and literary controversy have been grafted serious accusations of anti-Semitism.

Questioned by L'Express, the novelist admitted to having drawn antisemitic cartoons and wrote negationist texts in a student magazine when he was 21 years old. "I assume, I end everything, what I did at the time with 3 or 4 cons, we were completely lost types," he admitted. The writer apologized during the show "We are not lying" on France 2 asking including "pardon" to Bernard-Henri Levy he is close.

Saturday evening, Yann Moix was the guest of "We are not lying" on France 2. The writer is back on the texts and drawings of youths anti-Semitic character that he made and revealed by L'Express.

During the talk show of France 2, he suspected his brother to "continue to patronize" far-right circles: "It is possible that my brother has provided these documents to malicious people." Before stating that he had no evidence and that it was "guesswork".

Contacted by Europe 1, Alexandre Moix, the brother of Yann Moix, explains to consider a judicial response. "His slanderous and insulting insinuations, that I belong to the far right and I would consume a conspiracy against him, are extremely serious, Yann Moix sails into a total paranoid delirium," he says. And he adds: "I am indignant at the deliberate harm he is doing to my own family and to myself." After years of hating me, his attitude is a sign of a will to harm all mine, my wife and my children. "

According to our colleagues, Alexandre Moix requests a right of reply to France 2 to insert in the program next Saturday. "So there should be, during the show, a banner written by Alexandre Moix's lawyer, Emmanuel Pierrat, with his client," says Europe 1.