Romain F., 46, hanged himself during the night of Monday to Tuesday in his cell in the prison of Lyon-Corbas, according to several sources confirming a report in the regional daily Le Progres. It is a supervisor who discovered it during a round.
The former teacher was placed in solitary confinement and had tried to end her days in August, according to his lawyer Girault Florent. “ The detention was too difficult and he cracked. And we knew it was on the verge of cracking a long time ,” he said, referring to the “ political pressure, media “and the” jeers, insults and threats “of his fellow prisoners.
“ It’s a lot on the shoulders of a man ,” continued the lawyer, who said his “ enormous regret that no one has been able to watch “that it does not pass the act.
The news of his suicide caused the victims’ parents angry. “ It will never be found, our children will never be recognized as victims! I’ll bring an action in court against (the administration) prison! ,” blurted one of them, Sebastian, in RTL.
“ Families expecting a lot of trial and following the instruction of what to say. We all agreed to be in a process or hatred nor stigma, but of truth. The parents wanted to understand , “added Mr. Patrice Reviron, lawyer for six families.
“ This terrible end forbidden to have answers ,” said for his part the Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, citing “ a retraumatization . ”
A classic investigation into the cause of death has been opened by the prosecutor of Lyons and entrusted to the gendarmes of the Bron research brigade.
In this case all the more sensitive it revealed malfunctions between the Ministries of Justice and Education, the Minister of Justice, Jean-Jacques Urvoas said his determination “ to shed light on the exact circumstances of the death “and strengthen, with the prison administration, prison suicide prevention measures.
– Convicted in 2008 –
The death of the teacher comes he had been indicted on charges of rape or sexual assault involving sixty children.
He was suspected of having imposed “ by surprise ” blow jobs to primary school students in Villefontaine, as part of what he called “ a taste of the workshop “during which children, blindfolded, had to identify the” things “the teacher made them taste.
The survey also revealed he filmed these sessions.
It was quickly shown, above all, Romain F. was sentenced in June 2008 by the Criminal Court of Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère) to six months suspended sentence, with compulsory treatment for two years for downloading child abuse images.
Despite this conviction, he had continued to work, National Education not having been informed. His conviction had not been accompanied by a ban on contact with children, or reported to the supervisory administration, while she was on her criminal record.
“ Parents have an important resentment vis-à-vis the justice who had failed to take into account, in 2008, that Romain F. said he risked to take action “me Reviron said.
Facing the scandal, the Departments of Education and Justice have taken since measures to improve communication between their services.
The National Assembly adopted on Thursday a bill specifically says “ Villefontaine “, to authorize, and sometimes make it compulsory transmission of information between the justice and administration employing suspected pedophiles.
“ The fight against child sexual abuse is a government priority as shown in the bill says + Villefontaine + to be definitively adopted in Parliament this week and will take effect immediately “assured Mr. Urvoas.
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