He had sent an SMS to the diocesan director, to indicate that he “would not be present at the meeting scheduled for that day. [lundi] and that he was going to end his life”. We know a little more about the circumstances of the death of Pascal Desmet, director of the Saint-Genès primary school in Bordeaux, found dead Monday evening.
The parquet floor of Bordeaux explains this Tuesday in a press release that it was notified on Monday of “the worrying disappearance” of the director. “An investigation was immediately opened and entrusted to the departmental security”, indicates the prosecutor Frédérique Porterie.
Judicial investigation opened against a teacher
At 6:45 p.m., the prosecution was informed by the Arcachon police station of the discovery of the body of a deceased man on the train tracks between Arcachon and La Teste a little earlier in the afternoon. Thanks to the identity papers found in a bag near the deceased, a connection was made. “In all likelihood, a train had hit the victim, the hearing of the driver of a train arriving in the opposite direction confirmed this hypothesis. »
Last week the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation entrusted to two investigating judges relating to facts of aggravated sexual assault, voyeurism, and possession of child pornography images which led to the indictment and incarceration of a school teacher.
“No link between the suicide and the charges against the imprisoned teacher”
“Suicidal intentions [du directeur de l’école] seem today confirmed by the existence of two writings to his family and to the Dasen [Directeur académique des services de l’éducation nationale]in which the deceased spoke of his discomfort, his responsibility for not having been more vigilant and his desire to end his life, ”wrote the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office again.
“In the current state of the investigations, there is no element to establish any link between the suicide of the director and the facts alleged against the imprisoned teacher. »