2023-04-18 09:53:18
This research director must not have taken into account the “#MeToo” movement. The head of research within the Inserm Interface basic and applied research unit in oncology on the Strasbourg-Hautepierre University Hospital site was given a disciplinary sanction for acts of sexual harassment. In office since January 2013, he was excluded from his duties for a period of one year, including six months suspended.
The case that led to this sanction is, to say the least, documented according to a report made public on Friday. The excluded director thus had “with regard to two doctoral students and an intern under his responsibility, inappropriate behavior with a sexual connotation consisting of repeated compliments on their physique making them uncomfortable”.
He kissed an intern “without her consent”
The same director was also criticized for “establishing a close relationship with a doctoral student by sharing a hotel room with her during a business trip abroad, inappropriate gestures against her (hand lower back, on the thigh, on the nape of the neck, caresses on the hair and the shoulders), the fact of lying on this same doctoral student asleep on her back at the beach while both in bathing suits, the fact of having appeared in his underwear in front of this same doctoral student”. Same pattern with another doctoral student, “and the fact of having gone alone to the home of a doctoral student in difficulty on her thesis and having put her hand on her thigh, shoulder but also on the buttocks and having tried to kiss her. »
It is also documented that the director more or less committed the same kind of acts in front of a trainee: the file reports that he “kissed this trainee without her consent, put his hand on her thigh and tried to kiss her again. In view of all these reasons, the CNRS confirms that the researcher is “excluded from his duties for a period of one year accompanied by a six-month reprieve from the notification of this decision”. The sanction is “deprivation of remuneration”, it was specified to the CNRS.
The three women filed a complaint, it was indicated to the CNRS which “strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and harassment, behavior and acts of a sexist and sexual nature” and recalls having set up “a report-cell” in February 2022.
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