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Nantes Prosecutor Opens Inquiry Into Alleged Abuse at Saint‑Stanislas After 2024 Suicide

Police are investigating after a family reported the man had disclosed assaults by a supervisor when he was a boarder at the school.

Overview

  • Prosecutor Antoine Leroy said his office received a family letter relayed by the Catholic education director regarding a 46-year-old who died in 2024, confirming an earlier Ouest‑France report.
  • Before his death, the man stated he had been sexually assaulted by a supervisor while he was a boarder at the Saint‑Stanislas collège in Nantes.
  • The criminal inquiry has been entrusted to the Nantes police commissariat.
  • Loire‑Atlantique Catholic education officials reported collecting testimonies alleging sexual violence at the school from the 1950s to the 1990s, naming five priests who are now deceased.
  • Bishop Laurent Percerou called for additional testimonies at a press conference, and the prosecutor said no other similar family reports have formally reached his office since then.