Jean-Claude Arnault, Photographer Handed Two-year Jail Term
Jean-Claude Arnault, a French photographer in Nobel prize scandal has just been handed a two year prison sentence.
Jean-Claude Arnault, 72, who is the centere figure of a rape scandal that forced this year's Nobel Prize for Literature to be postponed has been handed a two-year jail term.
On Monday, October 1, a Swedish court found Arnault guilty of raping a woman in an apartment in Stockholm in 2011.
The photographer who is well known in Sweden, is married to a former member of the centuries-old Swedish Academy.
This rape scandal forced the academy to cancel 2018's literature award in May.
The Stockholm district court said while announcing its verdict;
“The defendant is found guilty of rape committed during the night between the 5 October and 6 October 2011”.
It also added that the victim would be "awarded compensation for damages" and ordered Arnault to pay about $12,000 (£10,000).
The victim's lawyer,Elisabeth Massi Fritz, said her client was "relieved" following the verdict, local media report.