Former pupils of a Dublin school are demanding an apology from the management of the school where a French ex-Nazi officer taught for years, whom former pupils accuse of physical violence, the Irish Times reported today.
Louis Fetren, who died in 2009, served in the Waffen SS during World War II and was a member of the Breton nationalist group “Bezen Perrot”, which hunted down Jews and French resistance fighters.
Born in 1922, Fetren was sentenced to death in France after the war, but managed to escape to Ireland in 1945. There he obtained a degree and from 1957 to 1985 taught French at St Conleth’s College, Dublin.
Uki Goni was a pupil at St Conleth’s in the 1970s and is co-ordinating a campaign to get the school to apologise. According to Goni, Fetren was often violent with students during classes.
In a letter Goni sent to the school’s management, cited by the Irish Times, several former pupils recounted incidents of Fetren physically abusing them even after corporal punishment was banned in Irish schools in 1982.
One student recounted that Fetrine instructed him to strip in front of the class because he had forgotten French words describing clothing.
Goni calls Louis Fetrine a ‘monster’saying that he was “proud and boasted to have been an officer of the most vicious and tyrannical organization of the 20th century, the Nazi SS.”
For Goni, although the current management of the school cannot be held responsible, it must “apologize for the actions (…) that took place at the school, which still bears the same name today”.
Source: News Beast
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