More than four years later, the Pontoise public prosecutor's office requested on February 12 a trial for "
moral harassment
" for a teacher and two classmates of Evaëlle, this 11-year-old schoolgirl who committed suicide in Herblay, in the Val-d'Oise, in June 2019.
Multiple alerts
The possible order for referral to trial, decision of the investigating judge, could be made in the third week of March, specifies the Pontoise public prosecutor's office, confirming information from Le
Monde
.
In this case, the teacher would be referred to the criminal court and the two 16-year-old teenagers to the juvenile court.
A third comrade, indicted, benefited from a dismissal of the charges.
For months, Evaëlle's parents alerted the management of the establishment, then the academic inspectorate, about the harassment of which their daughter was the victim from classmates and from her French teacher, Pascale B., who allegedly according to them encouraged these practices.
Evaëlle finally ended her life at the age of 11 on June 25, 2019 in the family pavilion in Herblay.
The only way out she found, despite the support of her parents, to escape the harassment which began at the start of the 2018 school year. She was in sixth grade.
The investigation made it possible to determine that the acts of harassment targeting the teacher were confirmed by
“almost all of the students”
in Evaëlle’s class.
Over a story about a schoolbag that was too heavy, a conflict arose with this French teacher who had made her his “
Turkish head
”, they reported shortly after the tragedy.
The prosecution claims that Pascale B. was
“insensitive to Evaëlle’s isolation among her peers”.
Early and cheerful
The schoolgirl was described by those close to her as a precocious and cheerful child.
Despite a change of school, the young girl, then followed by a psychologist, was once again confronted with the violent behavior of a friend in her new school, thus provoking her action.
In September 2020, the French teacher was indicted for “
harassment of a minor under 15
” and placed under judicial supervision.
She has since been banned from practicing her profession and must submit to an obligation of care.
National Education also compensated the family for moral damage, according to the Versailles rectorate, in exchange for the abandonment of possible proceedings against the State.