An investigation for sexual assault was opened following the complaint of a teenager, denouncing acts allegedly committed by a supervisor within the framework of the universal national service (SNU), informed the prosecutor’s office of Châlons-en-Champagne. Sunday April 30.
The preliminary investigation, opened for “aggravated sexual assault” against this young girl born in 2007, was entrusted to the Châlons-en-Champagne police station, said prosecutor Ombeline Mahuzier, confirming an information of the weekly “Marianne”.
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“The facts were allegedly committed by a supervisor who has no known criminal record, as part of an SNU carried out in a high school in the Châlons sector”, added Ombeline Mahuzier. The magistrate with him “not aware of any other reports concerning him”.
A controversial SNU
A major project by Emmanuel Macron, launched in 2019 with the aim of eventually making it compulsory, the SNU offers teenagers aged 15 to 17 the opportunity to take part in a “cohesion stay” free, including sports, cultural and intellectual activities, then to an 84-hour mission of general interest.
Controversial, the UNS currently only concerns young volunteers – 32,000 in 2022. The president explained on April 23 that he would like his “gradual ramp-up”more “without making it mandatory across the country overnight”.
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In mid-April, the Secretary of State in charge of youth, Sarah El Haïry, seized the public prosecutor after accusations of sexual harassment, racism and humiliation during stays of the SNU, in the Hauts-de- Seine, in June and July 2022. According to a document revealed by “Politis”the facts would have been committed by a commander, and a lieutenant-colonel against tutors and volunteers.
