Police custody of teacher accused of hitting 3-year-old student in Paris lifted

This teacher was questioned a week after a video was posted on social media showing her violently hitting a crying little girl in the back in a nursery school in the 15th arrondissement.

Images that have caused a reaction. The teacher filmed hitting and spraying a 3-year-old student with a liquid in a nursery class at the Frères-Voisin school in Paris was taken into police custody on Monday, September 16, franceinfo learned, confirming information from BFMTV. She was questioned at the police station in the 15th arrondissement of the capital. This police custody ended Monday evening. “Investigations are continuing, particularly into the assessment of the victim’s damages and the context of the events.”, details the Paris prosecutor’s office.

A preliminary investigation for “facts qualified at this stage as violence against a minor under 15 without incapacity” has been open since September 10, following a complaint filed by the little girl’s parents at the Issy-les-Moulineaux police station (Hauts-de-Seine). The Nanterre prosecutor’s office has relinquished jurisdiction in favor of the Paris prosecutor’s office. For its part, the capital’s rectorate confirms that an administrative investigation has been opened.

In the video released by Vanessa Edberg, the lawyer for the little girl’s parents, we see the teacher hitting the tearful student on the back. She falls to the ground and then runs to take refuge near the door. The teacher then grabs a glass, presumably filled with water, and throws the contents on the child, shouting: “There! Does that feel good?” The scene, which sparked a wave of indignation, dates back to September 5, three days after the start of the school year. The little girl has since been terrified of anyone talking to her about school, her mother told France Télévisions.

For his part, the teacher’s lawyer stated on September 11 that she was “in shock” and that she regretted “deeply his gesture”, having “a moving thought for the young student”According to the rectorate, she immediately acknowledged the facts, apologized and mentioned an overcrowded class – 26 students that morning – in a agitated atmosphere.

In addition, a second complaint was filed Friday against the teacher by another parent of a student, for facts dating back to 2012, franceinfo learned from lawyer Vanessa Edberg, confirming information from the newspaper. The Parisian. This is a complaint for “violence” against a boy who was three years old at the time. The teacher is suspected of having slapped this child. On franceinfo, the teacher’s lawyer had described these accusations as “slanderous”.

In the case of violence committed against minors, the limitation period is six years. When the violence is aggravated by a total incapacity for work exceeding eight days, it is increased to twenty years.