An open investigation for rape and sexual assault at Ecole Polytechnique

A preliminary inquiry was opened against X for rape and sexual assault following an internal study of the Polytechnic School that a four student has been a victim of sexual assault since the beginning of his schooling. Declared the parquet of Evry at the France-Press agency (AFP), Thursday, April 14, confirming Information from France Inter .

While eleven students say they were victims of rape or attempts to rape, the opening of this survey comes seven months after that on CentralsUpelec, where an internal study had also reported a hundred facts of harassment. sexual sexual assault or rape during the academic year.

23% of students say they have been sexually assaulted during schooling

In both cases, the institutional directions had sent a report to the Evry prosecutor’s office, these schools being located on the Saclay Plateau (Essonne). According to the prosecution, the Polytechnic Report was received at the end of March and led to the opening Wednesday of this investigation, entrusted to the research brigade of the Palaiseau gendarmerie.

A Polytechnique, the questionnaire, carried out from January 19 to February 6 in consultation with students, was filled by about 2,100 young people out of 3,300s who integrated the school between 2018 and 2021, “more than 60% Answers, a very strong participation, “said Tuesday, with the AFP, the general manager of the prestigious engineering school, François Bouchet. “It was suspected that there would be cases of sexist and sexual violence that would rise, harassment, exhibitionism, unwanted contacts, because there was also a listening unit that had been seized of certain cases”, A he pointed out.

According to the survey, 23% of the students (mostly women) say they have suffered sexual assault during their schooling: we rubbed themselves, we touched their breasts, their buttocks, they were kissed against them against their will.