2023-09-28 08:14:00
The two defendants are accused of assault and battery on a minor, a young student aged 13 at the time of the facts.
The child was violently shoved during a harsh interview following behavioral problems. Director and deputy director take refuge in the face of the recurring difficulty encountered in an establishment where they must manage children who are both vulnerable, but also unpredictable in their behavior.
A Brussels lawyer and President Pierre Neyens defend the interests of the Wallonia-Brussels Community and the victim’s parents. Me Émilie Romain and Me Anne De Bie defend the two accused, each seated at one end of the bench in order to avoid any incident, the deputy director being particularly upset with his former hierarchical superior.
Jiu-jitsu
The facts date from October 14, 2019 in the followingnoon following school. An incident breaks out between a young student who had just hit someone and a teacher who was insulted profusely. Informed, the management (director and deputy director) decides to question the student and bring him to their office. “He was furious. He was screaming, he insulted me and threatened me, explains the deputy director. I held out my arms to prevent him from advancing towards me. In the event of an incident, I always try to favor dialogue.” What followed was extremely violent: blows, arm locks and attempted strangulation on the part of the director, also a black belt in jiu-jitsu. “I went to the office to call the mother,” continues the deputy director. “I heard screaming. I noticed that my director and the kid were grabbing each other as they fell to the ground on top of each other. . I was outraged by my colleague’s attitude. I shouted at him “Stop your bullshit, let him go.” He looked at me with a smirk. I then ordered him to let go, which he finally did.” A medical certificate attests to numerous blows received by the young teenager.
The deputy director experienced the events very badly, he fell into depression: “I was on the verge of dying because I felt so bad. Even today, I remain traumatized.”
Four other complaints and a deleterious climate
What has happened in the Saint-Mardoise school since 2016 and the taking office of director Cédric Fichet?
Several complaints, in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, were filed once morest the man who has now converted to trade unionism. They did not lead to anything concrete. The current affair, however, resulted in his dismissal in December 2021. “I reacted normally to a complicated situation, defends the director. You have to realize what a specialized school is to understand that we must act quickly depending on each case which is different. In this case, I had to protect myself, the two colleagues who were there, but also the student in crisis, once morest himself. For the Still, I am convinced that I am the victim of a cabal on the part of some of the staff.”
Yesterday’s stormy exchanges showed, in any case, that the climate in the Gaume school is at the very least tense and deleterious. There is a clan which defends the director once morest all odds and there is another clan which is outraged by his methods and which accuses him of all evils.
The different parties will exchange their conclusions during the winter and will meet once more in the spring, on April 24, for the indictment and the pleadings.
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