How did an accused torturer end up teaching at the Sorbonne? The Argentinian security specialist was in his mid-40s, spoke good French and had recently obtained French citizenship. His credentials were impeccable – he’d spent the previous five years teaching international relations at another Paris institute, the Université Marne-la-Vallée – and he soon became a valued asset at the Sorbonne. He would roll up his sleeves and get straight to work,” said Carlos Quenan, a fellow Argentinian academic at the Sorbonne. But the episode has left Sorbonne Nouvelle under a cloud: how could an alleged torturer have worked undetected at the a Latin American studies institute of a major French university?

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2019 09:22 UTC