Idriss Aberkane plagie his thesis, Polytechnique wants to withdraw her doctorate

The two establishments are in conflict and pass the hot potato. Paris-Saclay University estimates that it is Polytechnic to apply this decision. But opposite, the engineering school does not have legal means, reports The Parisian.

Idriss Aberkane threatened with losing his doctorate by Polytechnic for plagiarism

The former director of the Ethics Committee responsible for investigating suspicions of plagiarism, Benoît Deveaud, reveals to “L’Express” that Polytechnique proposes to withdraw the doctorate of Idriss Aberkane. However, the application of this decision remains unanswered.

The verdict of the Ethics Committee of Polytechnique fell: the famous engineering school proposes to withdraw from the doctorate, prepared in Polytechnique and obtained in 2016 at Paris-Saclay University, of the essayist Idriss Aberkane.

A decision made since September 2022

In 2021, the thesis of the essayist was available by all. By browsing the thousands of pages, some people wondered about chapter 13. After some research, it would be an almost full copy and paste of the documentation of software broadcast for free on the Internet in 2015, as L’Express revealed it in 2022.

Entrusted to L’Express, Benoît Deveaud, former predict of the Ethics Committee of the École Polytechnique, declares that the organization was alerted and could see this cheating in its thesis. “This decision was transmitted both to the École Polytechnique and at Paris-Saclay University,” said Benoît Deveaud in the columns of the magazine. The application of this decision, taken in September 2022, remains unanswered.

A controversial essayist

The two establishments are in conflict and pass the hot potato. Paris-Saclay University estimates that it is Polytechnic to apply this decision. But opposite, the engineering school does not have legal means, reports The Parisian.

The French essayist was very controversial and accused of having inflated his CV to evoke scientific subjects that go beyond his skills. It was during the COVVI-19 pandemic that he became an anti-vaccin figure. He had shocked X (ex-Twitter) with innuendo of a non-vacant French of COVVI-19, who was actually a false patient according to him. Four days later, we learned of the death of this patient. At the beginning of 2022, he published a video with the aim of rehabilitating the most famous of Marseille teachers: Didier Raoult.

Idriss Aberkane plagie his thesis, Polytechnique wants to withdraw her doctorate

Polytechnique had been seized more than 2 years ago by a whistleblower who had spotted the plagiarism on an entire chapter of the document.

After two and a half months of investigation, the verdict fell. Idriss Aberkane, biologist and essayist, targeted by an internal investigation by the École Polytechnique is ultimately found guilty of plagiarism for a thesis published 7 years ago. A decision that could cost him the cancellation of his doctorate, revealed theExpress Wednesday August 30.

Well known to social networks, in particular thanks to his YouTube channel where he abundantly relays anti -vax or even conspirators to his 897.000 subscribers, the 37 -year -old biologist, says he is “hyperdocious”, boasts of having obtained three doctorates. The first, in diploma and “noopolitical” (a term he invented), was issued by the Center for Diplomatic and Strategic Studies in Paris but is not recognized by the State. The second in “comparative literature”, carried out at the University of Strasbourg is valid. On the other hand, that of applied management and epistemology science is subject to question.

A whistleblower behind the survey

The case dates back to 2016. That year, Idriss Aberkane obtained this thesis from Paris-Saclay University after having prepared it at the École Polytechnique. Upon validation, the essayist demands a five -year embargo in order to protect “cod lines” that would appear in the document. It is therefore necessary to wait until 2021 that your work was publicly viewed. Several curious people then look into the document.

Problem: they note that one of the chapters almost fully copy-colle the documentation of software broadcast for free on the Internet in 2015, also revealed theExpress in 2022. Paris-Saclay and the École Polytechnique, alerted by a whistleblower, seized the Ethics Committee of Polytechnique in the process. Two and a half years later, the cleaver fell: almost all of chapter XIII of his thesis is indeed the result of a plagiarism.

An “incredible aggressiveness”

The observation will not be without consequence for Idriss Aberkane. In L’Express, Benoît Deveaud, Director of Research and Chairman of the Ethics Committee of Polytechnic at the time of the facts, explains: “We therefore decided, unanimously, to propose the cancellation of his thesis. This decision was transmitted both to the École Polytechnique and at Paris-Saclay University “. The interview also evokes a “Incredible aggressiveness” when he is implicated by the X and especially his refusal to answer the questions submitted to him.

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Idriss Aberkane’s thesis in Polytechnique? A case of “obvious” plagiarism for the school’s ethics committee

The French speaker cheated to obtain his doctorate in applied management and epistemology sciences, one of the three he claims. One of the chapters of his thesis is almost plagiarized

Posted on September 01, 2023 at 5:45 pm. Modified September 04, 2023 at 12:46.

This article was updated on September 4 after receiving the responses of the Neuchâtel authorities.

The famous speaker follower of personal development has plagiarized his thesis and is threatened to lose one of his doctorates. “Idriss Aberkane plagiated almost all of the 47 pages in chapter XIII of his thesis.”Plagiarism is” obvious “and” coarse “. And the sentence without appeal: the Ethics Committee of the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris decided “unanimously” in September 2022 to request the cancellation of the thesis in management sciences and applied epistemology of the essayist and speaker French, who built his fame by highlighting the fact that he was holder of three doctorates. The information was revealed Wednesday by the magazine L’Express, in an interview with Benoît Deveaud, president of the committee until recently.

This decision was transmitted to both the Polytechnic School-where the thesis was prepared-and at Paris-Saclay University-where it was supported in 2016. “To date, the application of the sanction is still pending,” said Benoît Deveaud. What exactly is this plagiarism? The accused chapter is “an almost full copy and paste of the documentation of software broadcast for free on the Internet in 2015”, indicates L’Express.

A Swiss component

The setbacks of Idriss Aberkane, whose diplomas and statements concerning his CV were questioned in 2016, also experiences a Swiss component. In December 2020, the RTS revealed that the Frenchman is at the heart of a “judicial imbroglio” in the canton of Neuchâtel. An investigation was opened for unfair management following the bankruptcy of General Bionics, a company with multiple activities he had created in 2018. She sank in 2019. All the accounts of Idriss Aberkane in Switzerland are frozen, specifies the RTS.

The investigation comes today, indicate the Neuchâtel judicial authorities. They specify: “The parts have just placed their observations. On this basis, the public prosecutor will determine whether it is advisable to classify the case or refer it to a court. This exam should be done soon ”.