The general inspection of education, sport and research reveals that only disciplinary proceedings has been initiated on fifteen situations of aggression, harassment or rape whose school management was aware of.
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Place the school in the face of its responsibilities: it is the objective of the general inspection of education, sport and research (igesr), called to investigate the Normale School (ENS) From Lyon in March, after a wave of student testimonials claiming sexual assault and rape on campus and in university residences. Only a summary of the report was published by the Ministry of Higher Education, Wednesday, October 27, which sets out the main findings and recommendations of the inspectors.
In this temple of the basic and experimental sciences as well as letters and human sciences, the mission has reconstituted an anonymized list of 27 situations of sexist and sexual violence, the first of which dates back to 2017 and where all the victims are students, at the exception of a case. More specifically, nine situations would raise rape qualification. “The implications are for half of them students and for the other half, these are five teachers (ENS or off), of five other staff from ENS, four external persons at ENS of Lyon or unidentified “, details the synthesis of the report.
The direction of the school was only informed of fifteen of these 27 situations and “on the fourteen situations treated by the Presidency, only one gave rise to a disciplinary procedure, reports the igesr. All other situations remained without formalized decision on the part of the ENS allowing to close the file or are declared as always “in the course of instruction”. ”
” little eagerness to act “
The mission considers that the Presidency of ENS Lyon has “not sufficiently taken the measure of the problem of sexual and sexist violence within the school”, showing “lack of coherence in the treatment of situations “And showing” little eagerness to act “. As a result, “a feeling of uncertainty, fear and distrust that has settled among alleged victims and has maintained a deleterious social climate”. In 2017, ENS had set up a policy of accompanying alleged victims. But this will has not resisted the tensions and the divestment of several actors of the devices that had been developed “, until the resignation, in 2019,” referent equality “of the school.
Even today, the organization of the scheme for reporting, listening, accompaniment and action presented at the Security Hygiene and Working Conditions Committee (CHSCT) of 9 April remains “perfectible “In the eyes of the General Inspectors. In their recommendations, they advocate to better specify the different stages of processing a situation and clearly stop the selection and role of participants for each level of intervention. As for the president of the school, Jean-François Pinton, he is fixed “annual objectives” and the signing of a “framework agreement” with the judicial authorities to follow the procedures in progress.
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