The teacher was accused of “repeated humiliation going as far as the crying of the child” and could be “physically abrupt”.
A teacher from Carquefou, near Nantes, was sentenced on Monday August 29 to a permanent ban on practicing the profession and a 30-month suspended prison sentence for “violenceexercised on several of his students.
The Nantes criminal court also found the teacher guilty of “moral harassmenton several of his colleagues, including the director of the Saint-Joseph school, an establishment in the north of the Nantes metropolis. “I always think of the children who have suffered. We had a lot of testimonies after the trial of other children. So I think for them it’s definitely a relief“, declared the latter, Philippe Plantard, specifying that the children concerned were educated in elementary school.
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In its decision, in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor, the court also condemned the teacher to pay several thousand euros in damages to the victims. “What was reproached to this school teacher was a way of treating children which was sometimes physically abrupt, and it was above all repeated humiliations going as far as the crying of the child, with an educational alibi which cannot no longer be restrained at all today“, told AFP Me Cécile d’Oliveira, who defended the family of one of the schoolchildren.
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“It is a judgment that is quite strong because symbolically, it signifies very clearly that the behaviors of what are called “ordinary educational violence” are unacceptable in the school world“, she greeted. “The most important thing for us was the ban on practicing. We feel a huge relief for the children“, reacted Claire, whose daughter Juliette was among the victims. The teacher has ten days to appeal the court’s decision.
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