Former French School Principal to Face Trial for Sexual Assault on Minor

While the police were investigating the disappearance of Lucas Tronche in the Bagnols-sur-Cèze region, which was finally found in June 2021, they collected the testimony of a young girl who had had a relationship with a former head of the Albert-Einstein high school in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, who was also a former principal of the French high school in Marrakech. The investigators first came across the regular telephone exchanges with the principal of the establishment. Calls and messages exchanged between a 17-year-old high school student and a 59-year-old, then 60-year-old man at the time of the first acts. The teenager had filed a complaint in the fall of 2019.

The Nîmes public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation for rape of a minor by a person in authority. The former principal was taken into custody on June 23, 2020, then indicted shortly afterwards for rape