Considered as an offense since 1998, this practice has been replaced by integration nights, where alcohol flows to streams. The measures taken by university officials and grandesons of the region’s capital have not prevented two deaths of students in three months.
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It was Valentin Gomes. He was 23 years old. On October 5, the body of this future engineer, a fifth year student in Polytech Lille, was found in Signy-L’Abbaye (Ardennes). The young Breton had disappeared on the night from Saturday to the previous Sunday while he was attending a cohesion weekend in a camping Ardennes with nearly 400 other students.
The autopsy “did not determine at this stage the cause of death or to find objective trace of the voluntary intervention of a third party causing a lesion,” said the prosecutor of Charleville- Mezieres. Witnesses specified the local press that he had consumed a lot of alcohol, that “we had refused to reserve it” and that he was then “entered a kind of fallback bungalow, provided for by the organizers so that All students can rest there “. The on-site presence of civil security and an order service of the Red Cross did not prevent the drama.
Humiliating practices
The trail of aggression was quickly removed, but the massive alcoholization practiced during these evenings is at the heart of the investigation. As for Simon GuermonPrez. He was 19 years old. On July 9, the body of this second year of medicine student was found on the A27 motorway. The Northern Young Officer came from an Integration Night Organized by Students to the Citadel of Lille and in an apartment, where alcohol doses were administered.
When he returned home, he walked a few hundred meters, to the bridge that passes above the Lille-Brussels motorway. Simon would have made a selfie with his phone, that he dropped. It is trying to recover it that it was hit by a truck. Since this tragic accident, his father fights against the practices used during these parties of integration. According to Daniel GuermonPrez, “Simon did not drink alcohol usually, he did not like that”. However, during this evening, the young student would have drank “about eight large doses of syringe, paid directly into the mouth in less than two hours,” says his father. His petition ” Stop hazing “, launched on the Internet, has already collected more than 33,000 signatures.
Forbidden since 1998, hazing is punished by six months imprisonment and € 7,500. In 2018, Student Universities and Associations also signed a charter with the Minister of Higher Education, Frédérique Vidal, to supervise the organization of festive events. “But what we thought extinguished is still there, is desoking Professor Dominique Lacroix, Dean of the UFR of the Health and Sport Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine of Lille. And the bottom of the problem is Alcohol. “
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