US EditionFormer Paratroopers Accuse French Officers of Violent Hazing and Racism
- Four former soldiers from the 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment filed complaints on May 9th in Paris against their superiors for violent hazing and racism.
- The complaints allege deliberate violence, moral harassment, degrading treatment, threats, endangering lives, and incitement to suicide within the regiment's command structure.
- Additional context reveals that two-thirds of recruits from the same year have left the army and one in four suffer from depression, highlighting harmful and archaic methods used.
- Thibault Laforcade called the complaints "a courageous step" that demands reexamination of military practices, while the French Army launched a command-level investigation.
- This case could prompt changes in military conduct as the ministry pursues full transparency and the army commits to addressing these serious allegations.
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Four former soldiers of the 8th RPIMa de Castres filed a complaint of violence and moral harassment against their superiors, reporting in several media about the harassment they experienced.
Four former soldiers of the 8th RPIMA filed a complaint, including for voluntary violence and moral harassment, against the cadres of the regiment.
Former paratroopers accuse French officers of violent hazing and racism
Four former soldiers from the elite 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment in southern France have filed formal complaints accusing their superiors of physical violence, moral harassment and degrading treatment.
Mr. Thibault Laforcade represents four former soldiers of the 8th Parachute Regiment of the Navy of Castres. They filed a complaint, inter alia, for violence and moral harassment against their superiors, considering that they had been subjected to degrading treatment. They specifically targeted superiors and the Ministry of the Army. In his complaint, one of the complainants argued that "a real harassment was organised around him, creating a tox…
It is "the time to question the internal functioning" of the army, according to the lawyer of the four men, formerly the 8th regiment of paratroopers of navy infantry.
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