Moral harassment in the Air Force. conditional imprisonment of eight soldiers

Eight Air Force soldiers were sentenced Friday, November 16, by the Military Chamber of the Metz Court, which has jurisdiction over the case, to four to fourteen months in prison, conditionally, for moral harassment and violence, as reported by the victim. lawyer

Two other defendants, including a colonel who was on trial for “violation of the set point“Breach of the code of military justice, they were released,” said Frédéric Berna, joined by AFP.

“Hazing”

The ten defendants tried on September 16 were accused of moral harassment and violence committed during the “Sessions”.a blur“From 2015 to 2018, against a young mechanic who worked on combat aircraft and has since left the army. All were then deployed to base 133 in Nancy-Ochey.

“What is extremely important in this case is that a group of eight non-commissioned officers should be convicted of assaulting a single man;Me Berna responded. “It’s time to stop covering up this kind of behaviorinside the military establishment, added the lawyer.

His 28-year-old client feels.understood“:”He was so humiliated and disillusioned by these steps“criminal that he”no longer believed“. He hopes so nowthis decision will allow the army to implement deep reforms“. According to Me Berna, he was part of “one of the best soldiers of his generation, and he was dismissed from the army because he did not like his behavior in private life“.

In February 2021, a preliminary investigation was launched in Metz after five military personnel from this same airbase, three men and two women, filed a complaint for moral harassment again. The investigation is still ongoing.