A year and a half after the suicide of Evaëlle, an 11-year-old college student, three 13-year-old adolescents were indicted for harassment, we learned Monday from the Pontoise prosecutor's office, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
Last September, an extremely rare fact, the girl's French teacher had also been indicted for harassment, with a ban on practice and compulsory care.
A sixth-grade student, Evaëlle committed suicide on June 25, 2019 in the family pavilion in Herblay, in the great Paris suburbs.
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Five months later, the Pontoise prosecutor's office opened a judicial investigation against X for manslaughter and, against the teacher, an experienced fifty-something, and several students, for moral harassment.
Evaëlle's nightmare, described as
"precocious and extroverted"
by her parents, had started at the start of the 2018 school year. For a story of too heavy schoolbag, a conflict had arisen with this teacher who had made her his
"head" Turkish ”
and
“ encouraged ”
some of her comrades to harass her, according to her parents.
The indictment of the three students, aged 11 at the time of the facts, is
"exceptional because they were extremely young, but the judge rightly considered that there were enough charges against them"
, responded to AFP the lawyer for the parents of the girl, Delphine Meillet.
“The message is clear: it means that violently mocking a child can have very serious consequences for the mockers,”
she added.
For months, the parents of the schoolgirl alerted the management of the establishment, then the academic inspection.
The National Education compensated the family for moral damage, according to the rectorate of Versailles, in exchange for the abandonment of any lawsuits against the State.
On November 5, the national day against school bullying, a tribute was paid to Evaëlle in the college where she was educated.
