Albi police launch call for witnesses as a former teacher is suspected of sexual abuse and pedophilia

Albi police are calling for witnesses to find potential victims while a former teacher is suspected of sexual abuse and pedophilia, reports France Bleu Occitanie on Thursday January 11. A judicial investigation was opened at the Toulouse judicial court. This teacher worked in the following Albi establishments: the Lapérouse high school from 1971 to 1978, the Lapérouse college from 1978 to 1993 then the Jean-Jaurès college from 1993 to 2006.

The police call on any person likely to provide information of interest to the investigation, or wishing to report facts of which they may have been a victim in connection with the case, to contact the departmental judicial police service of Tarn at the national police station of Albi by email to the following address: [email protected].

A book at the origin of the investigation

It was a book that triggered this investigation. Just a year ago, Franck Gayet published a story The Wednesday Man (publisher L’Harmattan – Collection Rue des Écoles), testifying to sexual abuse at the hands of a literature professor when he was a child. The suspect was a well-established and respected Albigensian teacher who worked in a high school and two colleges in the Tarn city.

The book has visibly opened the floor and allowed others to speak and file complaints against this professor for acts of the same nature.