Teacher’s widow complains to National Education Department for “harassment”

Teacher Caroline Grandjean committed suicide on the first day of the school year after being the target of homophobic comments. The complaint also targets the mayor of Moussages village.

He had announced his intention to file a complaint, and now that has been done. Christine Paccoud, the widow of Caroline Grandjean, the teacher who committed suicide in Cantal on the day the school year started after being subjected to homophobic comments, filed a complaint against National Education for “harassment”, Aurillac prosecutors announced to AFP on Wednesday 12 November.

The complaint also targets the mayor of the village of Moussages (Cantal), where the elementary school is located, where he also serves as director. The complaint was filed by his widow Christine Paccoud, prosecutor Sandrine Delorme added, without further details. Christine Paccoud has announced her intention to file a complaint “lack” in mid-September, in an interview published Wednesday in the Ebra group newspaper, but he later announced that he wanted to observe a “rest phase” facing towards “media flood and sensationalism”.

Caroline Grandjean, 42, had been the target of harassment since September 2023 because of her homosexuality and committed suicide on 1 September 2025 in Anglards-de-Salers, near his housea drama that caused turmoil in the world of teaching. Tags “dirty embankment” And “dyke = pedophile” had been found on the walls of his school in Moussages, a village in Cantal with 200 inhabitants. An investigation was opened following this registration but closed without further action in March 2025 “in the absence of new facts”the prosecutor then announced. The Ministry of National Education, for its part, has launched an administrative investigation into Caroline Grandjean’s death.