The CentraleSupélec school targeted by an investigation after revelations of sexual violence – The HuffPost

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The results of our questionnaire are alarming but they seem necessary for everyone to realize the extent of the problem of gender-based and sexual violence in higher education. https://t.co/2MNqCjHxYU

– Çapese (@capese_cs) October 7, 2021

According to this survey, 51 women and 23 men declared having been victims of sexual harassment during the academic year 2020-2021, 46 women and 25 men of sexual assault (“a physical contact with a sexual part – buttock, sex, breasts, mouth, between the thighs – committed by violence, coercion, threat or surprise ”) and 20 women and 8 men of rape (“ an act of penetration committed by violence, coercion, threat or surprise ”).

Among the students who declared having suffered one of this violence, “nearly 9 out of 10 indicated that their attacker would be another student and that the facts would have taken place in an associative context or within the student residence”, a Supélec clarified.

“The results of this survey amazed us”

“Faced with the seriousness of the facts declared by the participants in this unprecedented investigation, the director of the school Romain Soubeyran decided to alert the public prosecutor of Evry in a letter”, so that “additional means are considered prevention, action and support for victims, but also means of sanctioning perpetrators, ”added the school.

Following the report, the Evry prosecutor’s office opened a preliminary investigation for acts of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape, and entrusted the investigations to specialized investigators from the Palaiseau research brigade, the public prosecutor said.

“The results of this survey have stunned us,” said the director of the school, quoted in the press release. “If we have been involved for a long time in the fight against gender-based and sexual violence, we were far from taking the exact measure,” he added.

“The results of our questionnaire are alarming, but they seem necessary to us so that everyone becomes aware of the extent of the problem of gender-based and sexual violence in higher education,” the Çapèse association said on Twitter. .

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