The Director of Sciences Po, Frédéric Mion, presented his resignation this Tuesday evening in a letter addressed to the educational community and to the students. “I have decided to present my resignation to the members of our councils and to the Minister of Higher Education”, he wrote.
This resignation comes in the wake of the Duhamel affair which gave rise to the launch of an inspection to establish the “Responsibilities” and D’“Possible flaws” within the school.
Students criticized him for denying knowing
This resignation comes as the students of the prestigious school criticized their director for having denied being aware of the actions of Olivier Duhamel, resigned president of the National Foundation of Political Science which oversees the school. Olivier Duhamel is accused by her stepdaughter Camille Kouchner having violated his twin brother when he was a teenager.
The Ministry of Higher Education announced in mid-January the launch of this inspection within the school on the case.
“Errors of judgment on my part”
If the interim report “Confirms that no system of concerted silence or complacency has existed within our establishment”, the “However points out on my part errors of judgment in the treatment of the allegations which I had communicated in 2018, as well as inconsistencies in the way in which I expressed myself on the course of this case after it broke out”, writes Frédéric Mion in his message.
“Our company has been going through a very painful period since the revelation of the serious accusations against Olivier Duhamel, he continues. Since that day, all my decisions have been guided by the desire to protect our establishment, its employees, its teachers, its researchers and its student community from this affair in which they had no part. “
Alerted by the former Minister of Culture
At the time of the revelations, Frédéric Mion had expressed his amazement before admitting, to the daily The world, to have been alerted in 2018 by the former Minister of Culture, Aurélie Filippetti, of accusations of incest targeting Olivier Duhamel, causing initial calls for resignation.
He then explained that he had contacted a relative of Olivier Duhamel who allegedly certified to him that the rumors were unfounded.
On Tuesday, press articles reported new revelations in this case: the prefect of Ile-de-France Marc Guillaume, who had resigned in mid-January from the positions held in ” The establishments “ where he had “Worked with Olivier Duhamel”, including Sciences Po, would have been alerted to the charges of incest against Olivier Duhamel by Frédéric Mion, which he denied until then.
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