Montpellier Law School Commando: Professor of Legal History Jean-Luc Coronel de Boissezon Dismissed by the Council of State

La décision du Conseil d’Etat était très attendue. EPA – Mohammed Badra

La décision du Conseil d’Etat était très attendue plus de six ans après les faits qui se sont déroulés à l’intérieur de la faculté de droit de Montpellier.

The Council of State has finally ruled in the so-called law school commando case. In a decision published on Friday, March 27, the country's highest administrative court decided to dismiss Jean-Luc Coronel de Boissezon, the professor of legal history accused of participating in the commando that violently expelled students in March 2018.

Students who occupied the university to protest the “Student Orientation and Success” law when a commando of hooded men armed with wooden bats studded with nails burst into the university.

Convicted before the criminal court

Images of the commando within the law faculty. SCREENSHOT

For his participation, Professor Jean-Luc Coronel de Boissezon was sentenced, along with six other people, before the criminal court in 2021 to a prison sentence and then, on appeal in 2023, to a one-year suspended prison sentence.

But it was the decision of the Council of State that was expected. After that of the National Council for Higher Education and Research (Cneser) which had decided to ban him from carrying out his teaching and research missions for four years. A decision that had been appealed.

This time, the Council of State issued its revocation order that will ban him from teaching. The decisions of the Council of State are not subject to any appeal.

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