The leading man of Nobel Prize for Literature is sentenced to prison for rape
(8 years ago)Jean-Claude Arnault, the man at the centre of sexual abuse and financial abuse scandal that prompted the release of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, has been convicted of rape, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi in Albanian. In a unanimous verdict, the Stockholm District Court sentenced Arnault. Arno...
Jean-Claude Arnault, the man at the centre of sexual abuse and financial abuse scandal that prompted the release of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, has been convicted of rape, writes The Guardian, translates Periscopi in Albanian.
In a unanimous verdict, the Stockholm District Court sentenced Arnault. Arno's husband of a Swedish Academy member who gives the most prestigious literature award to two years in prison, the minimum sentence.
The judge, Gudrun Antemar, said that there was “sufficient evidence, consisting mainly of statements made before the court by the victim and many other liars, to punish the defendant for one of the two counts of rape he is charged with.
The verdict came as Pryscope conveys it at the start of the Nobel Prize week, shortly after the price was awarded for medicine. /Periscopi