After a complaint was filed for sexual touching of his 11-year-old daughter, a father received a threatening letter from the Versailles rectorate. Gabriel Attal “strongly condemns” the “terms” of the letter.
The attitude of the Versailles rectorate is once again causing people to react. After the parents of Nicolas, the teenager victim of school bullying who committed suicide in Poissy (Yvelines) at the beginning of September, it is another parent of a student who is sounding the alarm. On March 13, a father filed a complaint against X in Yvelines. He accuses an after-school leader, responsible for looking after the children during the lunch break, of having touched his daughter, aged 11, reports BFMTV. But the parent says he too received a threatening letter from the same rectorate.
The events allegedly took place on a Friday. The child, in tears, is sent to see the principal by her teacher. She says she was the victim of touching. The director then calls the municipal manager in charge of after-school activities who will inform the parents of the situation.
The reaction of the rectorate criticized
On Monday, the family leaves to file a complaint. The father also tries to contact the director, in vain. Four days after the alleged attack, the father finally managed to meet her. The tone rises in the face of the director’s refusal to explain. The latter refuses “to discuss under its conditions”. The father threatens to file a complaint.
After this heated interview, he wrote an email to the director, with the rectorate and the town hall in copy, in which he denounced “the failure to take into account the very serious situation”. He did not get a response from the director but the mayor informed him that the suspected animator, and employed by the City, was suspended on March 15.
At the beginning of May, the family ended up receiving a letter from the rectorate. We can read that “the procedure in force in this case was fully respected”. “Also, in the interest of your child and out of concern for setting an example towards him or her, I urge you to henceforth adopt a constructive and respectful attitude towards other members of the educational community and more broadly all National Education personnel. who work to take care of your daughter and act as best they can towards her.
Attal will take stock with the rector
A letter partly identical to that received by the parents of Nicolas, 15, who committed suicide at the beginning of September in Poissy. “It’s a direct threat, copied and pasted. In fact, they do it in an assembly line,” laments the father. The Minister of Education, Gabriel Attal, assured in a press release this Friday that he “strongly condemned” the “terms” of the letter sent by the Versailles rectorate. “With regard to the Versailles academy, the first reports from the audit that it triggered indicate that other letters of this type were sent to several families,” he added.
The Ministry of National Education specifies that Gabriel Attal will go to the Versailles rectorate on Monday morning to “take stock with the new rector recently appointed”. “It is a question of being transparent about the extent of this practice, of putting an end to it, and of drawing all the consequences,” explained the ministry.