A legal process to provide answers to the questions of devastated parents.
The Mulhouse prosecutor's office on Monday opened an investigation for "harassment" after the suicide of Dinah, a 14-year-old high school student who was the victim of school harassment according to her relatives, we learned from the city's public prosecutor.
This investigation was entrusted to the Wittenheim police station, alongside the Central Office for the fight against online hate "which will provide its expertise", adds Franceinfo, at the origin of this information confirmed by AFP.
"An investigation was opened for acts of harassment denounced by the mother" of the girl, added the prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot.
According to her parents, Dinah was the victim of harassment operated by young girls in college and to whom she had confided her homosexuality.
No complaint has yet been filed, added the prosecutor.
But Dinah's mother announced on Sunday her intention to drop one after the 40-day mourning period observed by the Muslim religion.
Initially, the prosecution had opened an investigation for "search for the causes of death".
"Don't worry, you will die soon"
She had received messages such as "don't worry, you will die soon", or "we will send you links on the Internet so that you can die", after a first suicide attempt in March.
Dinah, whose mother is of Moroccan origin, suffered "racist or homophobic" insults, her father, of Reunion origin, told AFP.
"In her class, there were two students who supported her, the others took her down," he said.
The teenager, educated in second class, was found hanged at the family home in Kingersheim (Haut-Rhin), on the night of October 4 to 5.
She was the last and only daughter of three siblings.
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During a white march which brought together more than a thousand people in Mulhouse on Sunday, Dinah's mother had questioned several of her comrades in front of journalists as well as the inaction of the teaching staff to whom she accused "of" to have closed the eyes ”.
France Bleu also unveiled a few days ago that, despite a confrontation at the college, his daily life would not have changed.
"It is important that we go to check all these elements," said the prosecutor.
The investigation was entrusted to the Wittehnheim (Haut-Rhin) police station, said the prosecution, which also seized the Central Office for the fight against online hate in order to "search for a certain number of elements in the telephone and in the teenager's computer ”.
Before going to lay flowers and candles in front of the Lambert high school where Dinah was educated, her mother, very worthy, had challenged these “aggressors who made my daughter's life impossible for two years.
The bullying must stop, we must talk about it with our children and teach them how to defend themselves!
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