The beginnings of student life are generally marked by festive initiation rites: integration parties and weekends. They have been widely discussed following reports of severe humiliations.
While some view them as “innocent fun,” others emerge traumatized and humiliated.
Under the social pressure to belong to a group, new students, consenting or not, are sometimes “forced” to endure these harassments in order to be integrated, at the risk of being isolated and bullied all year long.
The explosive cocktail of alcohol + drugs has never been a good mix!
Despite the sanctions in place (hazing punishable by 6 months in prison and a €7,500 fine), victims do not dare to report their hazers for fear of being excluded from the group.
