In Lens, a number of households obtained a letter from the police asking them to testify in an investigation focusing on a former instructor. The professor is suspected of getting consulted child pornography content. Mayor Sylvain Robert questions the administration of the state of affairs. In a letter addressed to the rectorate, he mentions an investigation “for acts of violence in opposition to minors by a professor who taught within the area between 2009 and 2025”.
The elected official regrets not having been knowledgeable earlier than the letters have been despatched. He asks for explanations on the measures put in place within the institution. He questions specifically the presence of a “psychological unit” and the techniques on the entrance to the college to help college students and households.
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The letter comes from Ofmin, a specialised division of the nationwide police. Investigators are in search of to “establish and interview all college students and former college students (…) who might have been witnesses or victims”. In accordance with prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon, a former instructor from Lens was arrested on the finish of November 2025 with 9 different folks in a baby pornography case. The ten individuals are suspected of detention, distribution and viewing child pornography imagesin addition to failure to report sexual abuse of minors. They used “an encrypted platform” to alternate this content material, in accordance with the prosecutor. At this stage, no indictment has been issued for acts of sexual assault or rape.
The instructor involved is at present suspended with out pay, in accordance with the rectorate. A disciplinary procedure might be launched as quickly because the conclusions of the investigation are identified. The rectorate additionally declares the institution of an “data time” and help for folks and college students from Thursday.
