Photograph that risked Nobel, even officially accused of rape

Jean-Claude Arnault faces the risk for six years in Sweden if he is found guilty of rape.

French photographer Jean Claude Arnaul, who is married to Katarina Frostenson, one of the board members of the Nobel Academy in Sweden, is now officially accused of rape.

The scandal against him shocked the whole of Sweden and the world of art and science, as a result of his and doubts that he and his wife had access to information about Nobel Prize winners, caused the Academy to cancel the Nobel Prizes for literature this year.

Jean Claude Arnault is accused of sexual abuse on two separate occasions by a prosecutor in Stockholm, Sweden.

If he is convicted, he risks six years in effective prison.

“I think support evidence is powerful and enough to charge him”, prosecutor Christina Voiggt said Tuesday in front of the media, reports The Guardian”.

Arnault, who has led a literary forum in Stockholm, is accused of sexually assaulting a girl in October 2011 and again in December 2011.

“in one of the alleged violations has had violence”, prosecutor Voigt said. And in the next case, the victim was asleep”, she showed.

Police have already interviewed victims and several witnesses, as well as Arnault himself. He has denied all charges against him.

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This is completely wrong and he's completely innocent”, Arnault's lawyer said.

Eighteen girls in November last year had accused Arnault in a newspaper titled Dagens Nyheter of sexual abuse and harassment.

Arnaul has also been suspected of leaking information about Nobel Prize winners seven times within 1996. The charge he denies. Three members of the Nobel Academy have already resigned as a result of the scandal.

In May, prestigious Swedish Akkadian announced she has been pushing the Nobel Prize for Literature for this year.