Death of the principal of a college in Lisieux: The two young people arrested had left the scene before the tragedy

Investigation The two teenagers had admitted to entering the establishment after “a drunken evening”, but they left the premises before the arrival of the manager establishment following the triggering of an alarm

Stéphane Vitel principal of the Pierre Simon Laplace college in Lisieux died in mysterious circumstances this Friday, August 11, 2023. — PATRICK SICCOLI/SIPA

Two young people were arrested after admitting being introduced into the college where the principal of the Pierre Simon Laplace college in Lisieux (Calvados), Stéphane Vitel, died; last Friday. Aged 17 and 19, these two people admitted to being introduced on Friday “by breaking a door” in the Pierre-Simon de Laplace college in Lisieux but claim “have left the places before the arrival of Stéphane Vitel, which seems to be confirmed; by exploiting the phone of one of them,” of the parquet floor of Caen.

The declarations of the two young men were verified by the prosecution. These checks “allowed us to ascertain that a priori, they were no longer present at the scene from six o'clock in the morning and that they were no longer in the area. ge whenù (Stephane Vitel) was there,” Joël Garrigue, the public prosecutor of Caen.

“They say they heard a noise”

These two young people, without a criminal record, were to be indicted for “intrusion into the grounds of a school” and “Degradation in combination of utility goods” public”. They should be placed under judicial control, according to the prosecution.

view “had passed (Thursday evening, N.D.L.R.) an evening of celebration and alcohol” the end of which they went to the old college of one of them. They admitted “being the perpetrators of the observed break-in” on a door of the establishment. “According to their statements, they (…) say they heard a noise” in college and “leaved very quickly to school. following the triggering of the college alarm,” according to the prosecutor.