Schoolchildren kick the ball on a small asphalt playing field. A little further on, three older boys are chatting at the entrance to a mobile phone store. They are interrupted: the Arthur-Rimbaud college? They know it well, one of them was there in 5th grade last year. Samara, the 4th grade student from the next town, Juvignac, lynched on April 2 in front of this establishment? The same teenager agrees: “It’s shocking. » “It hurts, what happened to him,” lament his friends, before disappearing between the buildings with the faded facades of La Paillade, in the popular district of Mosson.
Twenty minutes by tram from the city center of Montpellier (Hérault), near the college located in the REP + priority education zone, the story of Samara is still in everyone's minds last Saturday, four days after the violent attack suffered by the schoolgirl, now out of the coma and out of the hospital. In this case, three minors aged 14 and 15, two boys and a girl, F., enrolled in 3rd grade in the same college and originally from La Paillade, were indicted for “attempted intentional homicide”. “It’s crazy to do that to a girl!” The boys are big. Samara, she’s my size,” says Marie, a 5th grade student at Arthur-Rimbaud, with wide eyes from her height of 1.65 m.