The justice system has decided to take up the case. The director of Sciences Po Paris, Mathias Vicherat, announced his resignation on Wednesday, March 13. Summoned in December in a case of domestic violence, he has been informed of his referral to a criminal court.
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By signing up, you agree to the terms of use and our privacy policy. “I learned that my ex-partner and I are being referred to the criminal court,” he wrote in a message sent to the educational community of Sciences Po and confirmed to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) by the institution’s management. “It is the institution that matters to me more than myself,” he added. “That is why I have decided, in order to protect it, to resign from my positions as director of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and administrator of the National Foundation for Political Science.”
When his custody was announced last December, students of the institution had called for his resignation, blocking the entrance of the school. After a few weeks off, Mathias Vicherat had resumed his duties on January 24.
“An interim administration will be appointed in the coming days […] until the appointment of a new management,” said the management of Sciences Po Paris, in agreement with Sylvie Retailleau, the Minister of Higher Education and Research.
Mathias Vicherat, in office since 2021, and his partner mutually accuse each other of domestic violence and were placed in custody in early December before being released. In the announcement of his resignation, the former director specifies that he still disputes “the accusations of violence that have been made and spread against me” and believes that “justice will establish the reality of the facts.”
