Ban on practicing for the pharmacist who harassed his staff, near Montpellier

La pharmacie de Gignac a chang̩ de propri̩taire depuis. Midi Libre РMICHAEL ESDOURRUBAILH

Déjà condamné dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, le pharmacien avait récidivé à Gignac en se livrant à des faits de harcèlement moral et sexuel sur ses salariés.

Just a month ago, St̩phane, a 64-year-old man, appeared for seven hours before the Montpellier criminal court. From 2017 to 2021, he engaged in moral and sexual harassment of numerous employees of a pharmacy in Gignac Рresold since Рof which he was the manager.

His behavior had led to numerous departures and sick leave. Some victims still receive psychological follow-up, years later. The intervention of the Labor Inspectorate was followed by an investigation by the gendarmes.

Already sentenced to seven months in prison for similar acts, in 2016, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the man has just been sentenced again.

Thirteen victims

He was sentenced to two years in prison, one of which he spent under an electronic bracelet. The probationary suspension will be accompanied by various measures: obligation of care, obligation to compensate the victims, ban on coming into contact with them. All with provisional execution, which means that the condemned cannot escape it, even if he appeals.

The court also revoked the seven-month suspended sentence to which Stéphane had been sentenced in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Above all, the judges pronounced a definitive ban on practicing the profession of pharmacist. A decision from which the condemned cannot escape if he appeals the judgment.

Thirteen employees out of nineteen had become civil parties. They were all declared admissible. Stéphane will have to pay them the total sum of €37,000, which covers both damages and attorney’s fees.

The court also ordered a medical examination for two victims.

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