the family of Stéphane Vitel writes to Gabriel Attal to relaunch the investigation

The principal was found dead by his family inside the Pierre-Simon de Laplace college in Lisieux (Calvados) where he worked, on August 11.

The family of Stéphane Vitel appeals to the Prime Minister. The principal was found dead inside the Pierre-Simon de Laplace college in Lisieux, in Calvados, on August 11 at dawn. His family wrote to Gabriel Attal on March 15 to ask him to relaunch the investigation, France Bleu Normandie learned from his lawyer, Claude Marand-Gombar.

According to the conclusions of the investigation, communicated by the Caen public prosecutor last December, the death of the principal is linked to a heart problem. “We are probably not facing a crime.”he told France Bleu Normandie, on December 7, 2023.

In a press release sent to France Bleu Normandie by the family’s lawyer, Claude Marand-Gombar, the family considers that this conclusion is unfounded: “There is no material element in the file to support or justify this version,” writes the lawyer in his press release. Family “believes that the causes of his death have not been established”.

His wife is certain he was “attacked”

The body of Stéphane Vitel was found inside the Pierre-Simon de Laplace college by his family on August 11 at dawn. The principal was preparing to go on vacation with his wife and two children when he was informed that an intruder alarm had been triggered. He had taken a detour to go to college where he entered alone around 6 a.m. His daughter, worried not to see him return, found him unconscious inside the building.

The death of this principal, appreciated by his colleagues and his students, caused great emotion, in his region but more widely in the educational community. His wife, Jeanne Mailhos Vitel, had affirmed to several media her certainty that he had “attacked, a blow to the head I think“She said she saw a car speeding away from the school.

Two young men aged 17 and 19 admitted to having broken into the college at dawn on August 11. But they were quickly exonerated, telephone records having established that they had left when the principal arrived.