a policeman caught in the act soon to be tried for sexual harassment – Liberation
A 53-year-old police officer from Toulouse was “arrested because he had followed a lady in a car to her home and made sexual comments to her”. Already targeted by several complaints, he will be tried in May.
Ten complaints and 17 victims. A police trainer, already targeted by complaints of sexual harassment, was arrested on Tuesday in Toulouse for facts of the same nature and will be tried in May for this case, we informed the prosecution on Thursday.
This 53-year-old policeman “was arrested because he had followed a lady in a car to her home and made sexual comments to her”explains Samuel Vuelta-Simon, public prosecutor of Toulouse.
According the Midi Dispatchthe officer allegedly threatened the woman with “violate”. Shocked, the latter would then have called on her companion to confront the policeman. He will be tried on May 24, 2023 for harassment with sexist and sexual remarks, and is placed under judicial supervision by then.
Promises of “spanking”
The defendant was already the subject of ten complaints for similar facts, which occurred within the school of the national police of Toulouse where he officiated as a trainer. These complaints are still being investigated. The school survey “made it possible to discover other victims”, specified the prosecutor who evokes “remarks of a sexual or sexist nature”while an investigation by the IGPN is also underway.
Still according to the Dépêche du Midi, nine student peacekeepers had already denounced the actions of their trainer who, in the middle of the course, promised them to put them in “spanking”. The IGPN investigation made it possible to trace a total of seventeen victims of harassment or inappropriate gestures in addition to that of Monday.
At the time of his arrest on Tuesday, the 50-year-old had been on sick leave since April, the date corresponding to the filing of the complaints.