After the serious fall of a student this week in a college in Chambéry, the prosecution refuted, Sunday, the thesis of a racist attack put forward by the mother of the teenager, while the director of the establishment was threatened of death.
The facts happened on Wednesday at a private college in the city.
The student, of Cameroonian origin, seriously injured her face when she fell in the yard.
His mother has since denounced an assault.
In a text that has gone viral on the Internet, she writes that "since the beginning of the school year", her daughter "has suffered racist verbal violence and even physical" which would be at the origin of the fall and her injuries.
She filed a complaint.
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A version that "firmly" refutes the prosecutor of Chambéry, Pierre-Yves Michau.
The Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, "asked the rector of Grenoble to do an investigation, he said Sunday noon on BFMTV.
Of course this child has all our solidarity, all our support as well as her family.
Now we have to look at what the circumstances really were.
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The case ignites social networks
According to the investigation, Anna-Chloe was late when the bell rang the end of recess.
The student fell on a bench and then to the ground.
She was "immediately" taken care of by the emergency services, adds the magistrate.
According to "several testimonies", the teenager was at that time "alone" where she was in the courtyard, he told AFP.
Racism has a face.
That of Anna-Chloé, 11, should outraged us all.
Harassed since the start of the school year in Chambéry, she would have "fallen" according to the CPE.
What indignity!
Shame on those who knew, and who did nothing.
Full support for the family.
Let justice be done.
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- Aïda Touihri (@AidaTouihri) December 18, 2021
The case ignites social networks and causes a lot of concern among the authorities.
The personal address of the director of the college was released and he was placed under police protection because of death threats "in number", according to his lawyer, Me Pierre Perez.
The mother launched a kitty on the Leetchi platform, hoping to collect 30,000 euros to "pay the fees and expenses not covered".
A petition also collected nearly 17,000 signatures.
Personalities have also sided with the student, such as Cyril Hanouna who described the story, on Twitter, as "just inadmissible": "From the start (after the Christmas school holidays, editor's note), we will do the maximum to try to make things happen, we will not let go of her and her family!
", Promised the host of the C8 channel.
According to the lawyer for the director of the college, there were "200 people in the yard" at the time of the fall, no one mentioned a possible fight.
On the side of National Education, the chief of staff of the rector of the academy, Samuel Vitel, says he is "worried, as much for the young girl as for the educational team": "The excitement is not for the benefit of nobody, we want to take the pressure off for everyone.
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