TRIAL The Brest Criminal Court imposed a fifteen-month suspended prison sentence on two former naval trainees who had gone too far during a party integration
The sentence was pronounced by the Brest criminal court (illustration). — M.Libert/20 Minutes
They are married, both work in the national navy and were tried together on Monday by the Brest criminal court. A man and a woman were sentenced to fifteen months suspended prison sentence for “violence in meetings” during a hazing at Cherbourg (Manche). The facts took place on January 31, 2020 in a house where An integration evening was taking place at the Brest school of mastership, which provides military and maritime training, reports Le T&légramme. p>
Seven trainees, mostly alcoholics, were present that evening. The prosecuted couple is judged; guilty of forcing the youngest of the gang to undress and fondling him; the posterior with butter, holding it forcibly. An act that had traumatized the victim. Falling into depression, she has now given up. his dream of enlisting in the national navy.
The qualification of sexual violence was not upheld by the court. The latter, however, condemned the couple at; a ban on carrying out an activity; in relation to the offense, which now prevents them from exercising as soldiers, specifies Le Télégramme.