A professor at Bordeaux-Montaigne University, accused of rape, suspended for a year

The philosopher Barbara Stiegler filed a rape complaint against this philosophy teacher and former vice-president of the university.

A professor and former vice-president of Bordeaux-Montaigne University, targeted by a criminal complaint for the rape of philosopher Barbara Stiegler, was suspended for a year from his teaching duties as part of a disciplinary procedure, announced the university on Friday February 2 to AFP. This academic from the philosophy department was sanctioned with a “ban from exercising his teaching duties for a period of one year, with deprivation of half his salary” starting Thursday February, said a university spokesperson, confirming information from Release.

At the end of 2021, the teacher and philosopher Barbara Stiegler told the management of her department that she had been raped in May 2020 by one of her colleagues, against whom she filed a complaint. The university’s reporting unit was informed of the facts on June 1, 2022. In the process, around ten former philosophy students testified to this unit about acts of sexual assault and inappropriate behavior on the part of this same teacher, who challenges them.

New complaint with civil party constitution

In September 2022, the professor was suspended for five months, then seven months, before being reinstated in November. After the affair was over, it was the disciplinary section of the University of Toulouse-Capitole which pronounced this disciplinary sanction, seized at the same time, according to the rectorate, “on the aspect concerning the teacher-researcher but also on that concerning the students”.

On the criminal side, the preliminary investigation was dismissed in April. A new complaint, with the constitution of a civil party, was filed on July 27 with the dean of investigating judges, prior to the opening of a judicial investigation, according to the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office.