Friday August 11, 2023, Stéphane Vitel was on his way to his holidays when he was informed of an intrusion alert in the college of which he is the principal, in Lisieux. He then decided to turn around. Once there, he left his wife and children in the car. Entered the establishment alone, he never came out … The principal of the college of Lisieux, in Calvados, was indeed found dead, Friday August 11, 2023, within the establishment, as related our colleagues from Parisian. His relatives finally found him in the administrative part of the establishment. “We thought it was long. My daughter was getting impatient, she went to see and she found it spread out on the ground… so she came out screaming, ‘He’s down he’s down!’ “told the wife of Stéphane Vitel, Jeanne Mailhos Vitel, at the microphone of BFM TV. The latter would have tried to bring him back to life by practicing cardiac massage. Rescuers were unable to resuscitate him.
Opening an investigation
The Lisieux public prosecutor’s office quickly considered this death as suspicious and chose to seize the technical and scientific police. For her part, the wife of Stéphane Vitel is convinced that it is a suspicious death and that her husband has faced the presence of an intruder. “I’m sure he got mugged“, she lamented. “There was light in a college window so there was an intrusion“, she found after specifying that a car had quickly fled the establishment at the same time.
The rectorate honored the memory “a management staff committed and attentive to the success of the students”. For his part, the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, declared, on his account TwitterFriday, August 11, 2023, share “the pain and emotion of teachers, students and staff who mourn the death of Stéphane Vitel, principal of the Pierre-Simon de Laplace college in Lisieux” : “My thoughts and full support go out to his family and colleagues“. Several parents and students gathered on the evening of Friday August 11, 2023 in front of the Lisieux college to pay tribute to him.