A former director of the Higher School of Teaching and Education (ESPE) of Caen (Calvados) was sentenced on Thursday to "criminal imprisonment for a period of 15 months with a simple and total suspension", said the court judicial office of Caen. This 49-year-old man was prosecuted for acts of moral and sexual harassment committed between 2010 and 2016.
Thirteen civil parties were formed at his trial on June 24 before the Caen Criminal Court. Between 14 and 18 months suspended prison sentence had been requested by the prosecution. The case is referred on civil interests until April 22, 2021.
"A system of moral harassment"
At his trial, Jean-Michel Rotaru, Deputy Public Prosecutor, had specified that the defendant was mainly accused of "a system of moral harassment", but also acts of "sexual harassment, much more limited in terms of the number. of victims ”(two civil parties).
The prosecution had described the methods of this teacher: "isolate, remove, put aside" the victims, "scare away" the students of a course "to lower" a teacher and still "to defeat" by not giving information needed to prepare for a meeting.
"Tendentious" emails
The victims also described their sudden "shelving" and how several of them had been "humiliated", "denigrated" in interview or publicly, by a director slandering them, threatening to "release" them. A young woman had also reported many emails sent by Stanislas Hommet between 2012 and 2014 that the accused had recognized as "biased".
This former vice-president of the university in charge of communication, apologized. He had said his "shame" affirming not to have wanted to harm anyone, "in a context of multiple pressures that I could not manage".
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