JUSTICE – A former boarding school teacher at the private Catholic school Stanislas was sentenced on Monday, September 9 by the judicial court of Valenciennes (North) to one year in prison, suspended, for violence committed between 2013 and 2018 against six students at the Parisian establishment.
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He was also sentenced to a five-year ban on engaging in any activity involving regular contact with minors. The prosecution had requested a six-month prison sentence with a two-year probationary period.
The 61-year-old man was on trial for violence reported by six former students of the preparatory classes at this establishment in central Paris. During the investigation conducted by the juvenile brigade, the six victims had reported similar behavior: “slaps behind the head”, « humiliations », “insults”.
A former student, who completed his entire education at the Parisian establishment, described behavior “abusive” and one “psychological hold”He described the defendant as“omnipresent”, “voyeuristic” et “undrinkable”. “He was moody, stressful, he would enter our rooms, wait for certain friends when they came out of the shower.”another student testified, also calling him“homophobic”. Others had mentioned searches of the rooms on several occasions.
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At the bar, the defendant, a 61-year-old man with an imposing build and a receding hairline, disputed some of the facts. He repeated that he had simply “respected the rules” of the establishment and denounced a “cabal”. “I acknowledge that supervisors may have intervened in rooms because they were not tidy.”notably recognized the former boarding school master, in his brown suit.
“Does this seem normal to you? Isn’t this a flagrant violation of their privacy?”the president of the court asks him. “It was in the rules”retorts the defendant, who was also a music teacher.
This former boarding school teacher was also indicted for “rape and sexual assault by a person abusing their position” for acts committed between June 30 and July 1, 2001 in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), within the Saint-Martin-de-France boarding school, against a student then aged 17. In this case, the suspect was placed under judicial supervision.
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