New blast on the military institution of Sarthe. While an ex-Professor of the Prytaneous Military Lycée (Sarthe) was arrested this week because suspected of rape and sexual assault Of a dozen students, educated in the establishment between 1990 and 2009, the former teacher was found dead this Saturday. The assumption of suicide is privileged, announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Le Mans.
“I confirm the discovery of the teacher’s body implicated. The suicide hypothesis is privileged. A survey of research for the causes of death is underway, ”says Carine Halley, a prosecutor of the Le Mans Republic, confirming information from the Free mainewho specifies that the man was found dead at his home.
Placed under judicial control
This former 76 -year -old professor, retired, was arrested Tuesday after several complaints from former students of the prestigious military high school in La Flèche, the magistrate said in the week in a statement. The man was “implicated for having, between 1990 and 2009, sexually assaulted a dozen high school students aged 15 to 17”.
He had been presented “to an investigating judge for the purpose of under investigation of the heads of rape and sexual assault on a minor over 15 years old by person who had authority,” said the press release. “Placement requisitions under judicial supervision were taken by the prosecution,” said the prosecutor.
The man worked between 1979 and 2012 in the school located in La Flèche, in the south of Le Mans. “Faced with these accusations of exceptional gravity, the Ministry of the Armed Forces ensures all the victims of its full support, and cooperates with justice by implementing everything to shed light on the facts,” reacted the ministry in a press release.
What responsibilities of the establishment command?
All of the archives “useful for the needs of the survey were made available to investigators” and the general inspection of the gendarmerie was responsible for an administrative inquiry to “determine any responsibilities for the management or command of the establishment”, according to the ministry.
The chief of staff of the Army, General Pierre Schill, notably “wrote a letter to former students of the Prytaneous to invite those who would like to speak to speak”.
Questioned by Maine Libre, Lieutenant-Colonel Emmanuel Allard de Grandmaison, second commander of the Prytaneous National Military, said that the teacher “left the Prytaneous in 2012 and had no more contact with the establishment, nor with students. According to the daily life, the teacher used to receive students from him.
The National Military Prytaneous is one of the six Defense high schools. He has 550 students and students and welcomes “high school students, children of soldiers, civil servants or scholarship holders”, according to his website.
