a trainer from the police academy suspected of several acts of sexual harassment
The 53-year-old man recently followed a woman to her home and made sexual comments to her.
A police trainer, already targeted by complaints for sexual harassmentwas arrested Tuesday, December 6 in Toulouse for facts of the same nature and will be tried in May for this case, informed AFP to the prosecution, Thursday, December 8.
This 53-year-old policeman has “was arrested because he had followed a lady in a car to her home and made sexual comments to her“, told AFP Samuel Vuelta-Simon, public prosecutor of Toulouse. He will be tried on May 24, 2023 for harassment with sexist and sexual remarks, and is placed under judicial supervision by then.
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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 investigation within the schoola permit to discover other victims“, specified the prosecutor who evokes “comments of a sexual or sexist nature“, while an investigation by the IGPN is also underway. 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.