The former professor of the military Prytaneum of La Flèche, suspected of rape on students, died

The former professor of the military high school of the Prytaneous Arrow, in Sarthe, implicated for alleged sex and sexual assaults on ten high school students, was found dead on Saturday May 3, 2025, announced the prosecutor of the Le Mans Republic, specifying that the hypothesis of the suicide was privileged.

The Prytaneous professor suspected of rape would have committed suicide

“I confirm the discovery of the teacher’s body implicated. The suicide hypothesis is privileged. A research investigation of the causes of death is underway, “said Carine Halley, a prosecutor of the Le Mans on Saturday, confirming information from Maine-Libre.

A dozen high school students concerned: the retiree arrested on Tuesday

The 76 -year -old man was arrested on Tuesday, after several complaints from former students of the Lycée du Prytanene National Military.

The retiree was “implicated for having, between 1990 and 2009, sexually assaulted a dozen high school students aged 15 to 17”.

Rapes and sexual assaults over minor over15

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.

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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 an exceptional gravity, the Ministry of the Armed Forces provides all the victims of its full support, and cooperates with the justice by implementing everything to shed light on the facts,” the ministry reacted this week in a statement.

The responsibilities of the supervision or command to be determined

All 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 of 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”.

The National Military Prytaneous is one of the six French Defense high schools. It has 550 students and students, and welcomes “high school students, children of soldiers, civil servants or scholarship holders”, according to its website.

Source AFP

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