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An abbot in court for bullying students

2021-11-22T11:46:44.891Z


The trial of Father Régis Spinoza, former director of a private school out of contract, began Monday before the Bourges criminal court with a ...


The trial of Father Régis Spinoza, former director of a private school out of contract, began Monday before the Bourges criminal court with a long list of violence and punishments inflicted within the Catholic Institution Angélus, today closed.

Humiliations, slaps, "

harsh

"

accommodation conditions

, outdated food, poorly heated buildings, drudgery: the dismissal order read by the president evokes numerous punishments and violence, between March 2014 and the closure of the school in 2017 In total, according to the investigators, 51 students out of the 112 of the establishment located in Presly (Cher) have suffered violence.

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A teacher, quoted in the procedure, evokes a "

pedagogy of the funk

".

According to the multitude of testimonies from children, but also from teachers and volunteers, bullying was numerous within the institution, closed since the indictment of its director in June 2017. The Angelus boarding school hosted primary to high school students.

On the menu of the punishments mentioned: "

the Orangina

" (pupil shaken by holding him by the cheek), the "

leek

" (pupil left alone in the hallway for several hours), the "

jar

" (pupil isolated in an empty room) , etc.

"Traditional" Catholicism

The former director, who appeared in a cassock in court, is being prosecuted for violence with an ITT of more than eight days committed on a minor and for violence without ITT committed on several children. The man of the Church, holding a "

traditional

"

Catholicism

, to use his own term, faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. His criminal record is clean. From the start of the trial, scheduled until Wednesday, the 50-year-old abbot recognized "

accidental slaps

", claiming to have asked "

forgiveness

". "

It is not an act of violence, it is an act of education

", he insisted, refusing, however, the idea of ​​"

institutionalized

"

corrections

.

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Only two families became civil parties, while the investigation had identified 51 victims.

In addition to the abbot, two other supervisors of the Catholic institution, now aged 28 and 59, are in the box of the defendants for less violence.

In another part of the case, the former director is suspected of having resorted to hidden work within the establishment, in particular for certain teachers.

The defense speaks of “

volunteering

” and “

giving of oneself to support the project

”.

Source: lefigaro

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