Attempting to die to end her suffering is the idea that crossed Lea's mind (the first name has been changed) . On December 1, this 15-year-old high school girl put this thought into action by taking medication. A few minutes earlier, she had scarified her thighs with razor blades. "I told myself that I wouldn't have any more worries," she confides, tears in her eyes.
By this desperate gesture, Lea hoped to forget the insults, the jostling in the corridors, the mockery of which she was the victim within her establishment, the Lycée Jean-Monnet of Crépy-en-Valois. For several weeks, a group of first and second graders had been harassing her daily. “I hadn't told anyone about what I was going through. I was waiting for it to calm down and for them to move on. But it didn't stop and I fell for it, ”she admits shyly.
"I was far from imagining what was going on"
When help arrives, Léa is aware. Firefighters warn his mother, who was absent from the home during this suicide attempt. The teenager is transported to Compiègne hospital, where she will stay for five days. Ten days of total incapacity for work (ITT) are prescribed. "The doctor asked for Leah's school eviction until January," says Stéphanie, her mother. We did not see things coming. I was far from imagining what was going on. "
The next day, December 2, the latter informed the Lycée Jean-Monnet. Léa's main education advisor asks her to produce a document that makes it possible to establish the facts clearly and to identify the students concerned exactly.
"This kind of feedback is useful for school teams so that they are able to trigger internal investigations and, in particular, to summon the offending students during so-called contradictory interviews," said the rectorate of the Amiens academy.
School Takes Harassment "Seriously"
But for the time being, no disciplinary action has been taken. "The initiation of a procedure is done from the moment when the establishment has been able to establish with certainty the materiality and the veracity of the facts", adds the rectorate.
However, in this case, the harassment would not have materialized on social networks. No written evidence. It is therefore Léa's word against that of the students that she incriminates. Stéphanie lodged a complaint and is counting on the gendarmerie investigation so that the students they accuse are heard.
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“I want them to go before a judge, to understand that what they have done is serious! sighs Stéphanie. We also want to prevent it from happening again. Because Léa's case would not be isolated in this establishment.
"Last year, there was a case of cyber bullying," said a student after school. Videos circulated on social networks and insults were flared. There were sanctions but it was not enough! "
According to a professor, the establishment takes school harassment "seriously". "When there are disciplinary councils, we don't pretend," she says. The mockery and the insults between pupils always existed, and this in all the establishments. But with social networks, it continues outside of high school, day and night. And it takes on delusional proportions! "
"I think that we are not doing enough prevention," says a student of the second. Léa's case scares me because I tell myself that it could happen to me too. "Very often several people are witnesses or aware but no one reacts," regrets Laëtitia, a parent of a student.
"It was not her to leave!"
Léa has been attending school for a few days in a new establishment in Compiègne. "When I'm there, I don't think about all that anymore. But when I get home, everything comes back, she says. I wonder when it will all end. "
"It was not her to leave!" grumbles his mom. She is the victim. It is not logical. The establishment proposed to the family the establishment of a home educational assistance service, but the latter refused. "Only three teachers agreed to give him lessons," explains Stéphanie.
Little by little, Léa tries to rebuild herself. Already weakened by family concerns, she is now followed by a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Marked by her experiences, she takes medication to sleep at night. And for fear of meeting her stalkers in the street, she no longer dares to walk alone in the streets of Crépy-en-Valois.
"Everything is turned upside down," breathes Stéphanie. I don't dare leave her alone at home now. We hear about school bullying on television and in the newspapers. But as with feminicides, we realize that we can talk about it, there is no evolution. "