“No longer want to do Sciences-po.
»The disgust returns, insisting, on the Twitter accounts of high school students.
The aura of the Institutes of Political Studies (IEP) has taken a hit when, since Tuesday, the testimonies of students denouncing gender-based behavior and violence, including rape, have been breaking under the keyword "pork science".
A preliminary investigation was opened for rape in Toulouse, two for sexual assault in Grenoble and a report made to justice in Strasbourg.
Allegations deemed sufficiently serious for the government to convene a meeting this Wednesday evening with all the directors of IEP in France.
It is from the flagship, Sciences-po Paris, that the first domino fell, pushed by the explosion of the Olivier Duhamel scandal, on January 7.
The political scientist, accused by his daughter-in-law Camille Kouchner, of having abused his brother when he was 13 years old, chaired the National Foundation for Political Science (FNSP).
He resigned from this body which holds the keys to the safe and power within the famous school, as soon as the scandal was revealed.
Without turning it off.
In the hot seat, the director resigns
For a month, the director of Sciences-po Paris, Frédéric Mion, was also under pressure.
Some of the students and teachers reproached him for having pretended to ignore the accusations concerning Olivier Duhamel, although he had been warned about it in 2018. This Tuesday, Marianne also revealed that the director had raised the Duhamel case with the former secretary general of the government, Marc Guillaume.
An element that the person had so far always denied.
Tuesday evening, Frédéric Mion presented his resignation.
"I hope it will allow a return to the serenity so necessary for everyone's work," writes the former major of the ENA in his email, sent to students and staff at 10 pm.
Avoid the "quilt hit"
His chair will only be empty for a short time.
In less than 24 hours, Bénédicte Durand, director of studies and right-hand man of Frédéric Mion, has been appointed to act as interim director, while the process of selecting a new director begins for at least six months.
At the same time, the succession of Olivier Duhamel, whose interim is currently provided by the former CEO of Renault, Louis Schweitzer, will take place in May.
In the battle for these key positions, the first blow is already gone: Nicolas Metzger, teacher of the school and chairman of the board of directors of Sciences-po from 2016 to 2019, announced on Wednesday the creation of a "committee ", Aimed at bringing together the supporters of a" renaissance "of the Parisian school.
"We must not blow the eiderdown.
The foreigner looks at us and sees a pedophile in the presidency, a director who covers him, a former secretary general of the government involved…, lists the academic.
It is a system that has just fallen.
We must put an end to this absolute grub of self.
"In 2017, at the time of renewing the post of director of the IEP, the meeting for examining the candidates' files was held" in the dining room of Olivier Duhamel ", assures Metzger.
"Everything was decided in advance"
The academic Isabelle Barth, the only candidate against Frédéric Mion at the time, also keeps the memory of a “masquerade” from the selection process.
“The results were decided in advance,” she says.
Sciences-po made me feel like a clan, you can't find that in any other university.
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Louis Schweitzer, responsible for leading Sciences-po from here to spring under less stormy skies, assures that he has "heard the music of opacity and inter-self" and "draw the consequences", with the establishment a new process for appointing executive members.
An adjustment that supporters of the clean slate are already sweeping away as "cosmetic".
