Toulouse: a police academy trainer accused of sexual harassment by nine young women
The prosecution is closely following the investigation opened after the complaints of nine student peacekeepers who denounce the attitude of a teacher. This titular police officer was already the subject of a complaint filed by one of his colleagues.
The case leads to embarrassed airs and annoyed comments within the Toulouse police. An investigation was opened eight days ago when nine student peacekeepers from the Toulouse national police school came to the central police station to file a complaint. They published the attitude of one of their teachers during an assignment on the table. This man, engaged in training for ten years, totally let go during this exam promising spanking and other grave allusions to his female students. And having inappropriate gestures against a victim.
“He would not have targeted a student but a whole class. Very inappropriate, inexcusable remarks, ”laments one of his colleagues. The case, which the police would have preferred to deal with more discreetly, now finds itself in the hands of the general inspectorate of the national police. The officer in question, in his fifties, was sent home after the incident on Tuesday April 5. He is now on sick leave. For the moment, he could not explain himself to the investigators.
“This policeman has always been well rated and well considered slips”, one of his relatives. But a “complicated” family separation deeply destabilized her last year and led to a stay in a nursing home and psychiatric treatment. He would also have been the victim of a severe covid. “That doesn’t excuse anything, but it could explain his excesses,” says the same colleague.
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Within the school, place of initial training of 120 guards or assistant police officers but also place of regular “rehearsals” for all the titular police officers of the region, one flees the questions. An anonymous trainer nevertheless specifies: “He would have been neglected in taking his treatment. This could explain his slippages…”
So many explanations that do not sweep away the complaints filed for “sexual harassment” by the nine young women. “Their collective reaction shows the trouble that was caused by the behavior of this trainer,” said a police officer. More annoyingly, another file was revealed by this story. A police official filed a complaint after receiving numerous phone calls from this trainer. This titular peacekeeper had met this officer during a continuing training session at the Toulouse police academy.
Quickly alerted, the prosecution near the Toulouse judicial court asked the IGPN, the police force to take up these two files.