Stanislas private school in Paris: investigation underway for sexist and homophobic insults

Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: THOMAS SAMSON / AFP 6:34 p.m., January 19, 2024

An investigation was opened in the fall of 2023, in particular for public insult due to sexual orientation or gender identity, after a report from the General Inspectorate of National Education targeting the private school Stanislas in Paris, the prosecution said on Friday, requested by AFP.

This report is based on a report, unveiled by Mediapart, which notes homophobic and sexist "abnormalities" in this prestigious private establishment under contract in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, which welcomes some 3,500 students from nursery to preparatory classes.

A new report

This private Catholic school has been at the center of attention since the controversy triggered by the comments of the Minister of Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra justifying the education of her children in this school.

The Paris public prosecutor's office received a report on October 19, 2023 from the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research (IGESR).

Following this report, the juvenile prosecutor's office referred an investigation to the police station of the 5th and 6th districts of the capital "for public insult due to sexual orientation or gender identity and public provocation to hatred or violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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The IGESR was contacted in February 2023 by the Minister of Education with a request for an administrative investigation, after press articles pointing to accusations of homophobic and sexist abuses within the Stanislas high school.

The report, dated July 2023, was submitted to the Ministry of Education on August 1, according to Mediapart, when Gabriel Attal was the minister, but had never been made public until Tuesday.

“I would like to point out that this report does not reveal any fact of homophobia, nor any case of harassment. The only case of homophobia was the subject of a report to the prosecutor via the article 40 procedure,” declared Wednesday on France 2 Amélie Oudéa-Castera.

The Paris public prosecutor's office confirmed on Friday that it had received a new report from Céline Malisé, regional councilor for Ile-de-France, "on a teaching framework within the Stanislas establishment which does not appear to comply with the provisions relating in particular to the teaching of sexuality of the teaching code".