OUEDRAOGO Aminata said that she was surprised by DJINEKAMA Lucie's accusations because they were friends, and at no time did she ever tell her that she was a victim of sexual harassment by their director; that in addition, she spent her free time in the office of the latter; that since her recruitment in 2015, P.S.M never wooed or harassed her, nor did she learn that he harassed other women; Once the investigation was completed, the entire file was transmitted to the State Counsel of Faso who, in light of the evidence against him, initiated proceedings against P.S.M for sexual harassment following the direct summons procedure; Heard on the stand, the defendant refuted facts of sexual harassment raised against him by repeating statements he made during the preliminary investigation; he explained that their school recruits permanent teachers whose careers are directly managed by the founders and non-permanent teachers who are under his control; that he is therefore responsible for recruiting non-permanent teachers upon application and assess their possible requests for renewal later; that although he does not inform them of the criteria for non-renewal, it is his policy not to renew these requests more than once; that as regards D.L, she was effectively under his directorship during the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years; that within the performance of his duties, he has never asked D.L to touch him and has never conditioned the renewal of her contract by sexual intercourse; he acknowledged that there had been sexual intercourse between the victim and him, but that this took place outside the framework of work; that it was following his invitations to have a drink that they then continued to his house in sector 2 of Ouahigouya, where consensual sexual intercourse took place on two occasions; that indeed, being very sociable, D.L regularly came to his office where they had lunch together and she confided about her personal problems to him, and that they regularly did sports in the company of her colleague OUEDRAOGO Aminata; that he justifies the nonrenewal of DJINEKAMA Lucie's contract for the 2018-2019 school year by her indecent dressing, her absences and repeated lateness, although the latter had achieved the objectives assigned to her; Heard at the bar, the victim maintained the statements she made during the police investigation; She claimed that contrary to the statement of P.S.M according to which a second sexual intercourse had taken place between them on his birthday, there was sexual intercourse between them only once during the month of July 2017 and this was the condition for her contract to be renewed; Heard, the witnesses, including SAMPEBGO Angèle, BADINI Manam, BARRY Mamadou Michel, PARE Henry Bonaventure and OUEDRAOGO Aminata reiterated the statements they made at the preliminary investigation; 7 Scanned with CamScanner