Charles Guyard, edited by Yanis Darras
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12:16 p.m., July 09, 2022
Bullying, humiliation, inappropriate gestures … For several years, a teacher would have made life hell for her students at Saint-Joseph school in Carquefou, near Nantes. Philippe Plantard, the director, recalls one of the last reports, in 2019. “A child came into my office crying one day saying to me: ‘Save me, Monsieur Plantard, please save me. me”.
A dozen complaints
The schoolboy, trembling, asks “to be saved from his teacher, because he was always humiliated”, explains the director. This teacher is Marie-Emmanuelle. The teacher is appearing this weekend for acts of violence against minors in the presence of other minors.
More than a dozen complaints have been filed by some parents. “He was humiliated a lot, his classmates too,” says the mother of a student. “It was going through violence, putting his arms up in the air for 20 minutes until he was crying and he asked to stop because he was really in pain, in front of all class,” says another parent.
30 months suspended sentence required
At the helm, the 57-year-old teacher, arrested since July 2021, did not recognize anything. She has always been, she says, benevolent. For his lawyer, Maître Cabioch. The charges are unfounded. “The only physical violence that he was accused of had been dismissed by the prosecutor and I asked the court to confirm that decision, but also to consider that the psychological violence was not further established,” he explains. -he.
However, for the court, the trauma is very real and requires a 30-month suspended prison sentence and a permanent ban on practicing the profession of teacher. The decision will be made on August 29.