In Tours, a preliminary investigation for « sexual damage » during medical students – Liberation
« I opened a preliminary criminal investigation on Monday on hazing offensessexual attacks, aggravated violence ”, had indicated on Wednesday the prosecutor of the Republic of Tours, Catherine Sorita-Minard, on X. « The Judicial Police of Tours will conduct the investigations »she added.
Ms. Sorita-Minard told AFP on Thursday that « Twenty medical students » were concerned, « Including students ». « The notion of sexual damage is a generic notion that encompasses sex and sexual assaults », she detailed, adding that « Blowjobs are mentioned as having been practiced in public during integration evenings ». Monday, 27 measures were unveiled by the University of Tours for Fighting sexist and sexual violenceafter the conclusions of a report ordered after the deployment of a sexist banner during an integration evening, and highlighting « Systemic practices ».
The report, produced by the General Inspectorate of Sports and Research Education (IGESR), « Concluded from characterized hazing facts, humiliating or degrading acts and Sex not grantedcommitted between October 2023 and September 2024 ”. « The testimonies of the report are edifying and the facts are criminally reprehensible »explained Philippe Roingeard, president of the Tourangelle University, during the presentation of the action plan.
Among the measures, the seizure of the University’s disciplinary committee against 20 medical students from the Carabins Association, sanctioned in early February and behind the sexist banner unveiled during an evening. But also « A new report to the public prosecutor of Tours concerning these students », according to the establishment. The public prosecutor confirmed that it was « seizure » a report of the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research, and a report by the President of The University of Tours.
Regarding the affair of the banner, on which one could see a naked woman, unconscious and plunged into a cocktail glass, under which was inscribed an explicit mention in the GHB, substance nicknamed the « drug of the rapist », « The investigation continues»»,, added Ms. Sorita-Minard.
