Insults, bullying, brutal tearing of underpants: eight months suspended prison sentence were required this Monday before the Marseille Criminal Court, against two marine firefighters tried for the moral harassment of a young recruit.
At the time quartermaster, the two defendants contested being the authors of insults and threats alleged by a sailor which had led him to a suicide attempt and to two psychiatric hospitalizations.
Rite of integration
Assigned in June 2015 to the Saint-Lazare barracks in the center of Marseille, the complainant who has since left the battalion of marine firefighters claims to have been quickly taken in flu and insulted almost daily: “” You are a squid “,” you you are a burne “,” you are useless “” …
The young man claims to have also been the subject of repeated small slaps on the back of the neck and a “undercut”, a rite of integration consisting in tearing off the sailor’s underpants without removing his pants. A painful practice for the testicles, noted the president of the court Karine Sabourin.
“This file is far from the image of excellence that the battalion of marine firefighters wants to send back and this type of behavior casts shame on a body that everyone admires for its bravery”, noted the prosecutor Cécile Guyonvarch . The judgment will be rendered on November 15.