His funeral was celebrated Thursday, November 18. A day normally dedicated to the fight against violence and bullying at school. Aged 14, a secondary school student living in the Lorient region committed suicide on the night of November 11 to 12. His entourage and the investigators suspect a situation of harassment within his establishment. The lifeless body of the teenager was found at the family home, in the region of Lorient (Morbihan). “The findings left no doubt, as to autolysis by hanging,” confirms the public prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger.
The magistrate specifies that an investigation was opened “in particular of the heads of harassment”. It was entrusted in co-referral to the local gendarmerie brigade and the Lorient research brigade. The prosecutor does not wish to speak more “both in the interest of the investigations, than to preserve the memory of the teenager and the pain of her relatives”.
Naked photos at the origin of the harassment?
According to West France, which revealed the information, the girl was visibly the victim of harassment from students of her private college. Naked photos of the victim and several of her friends were reportedly exchanged on Snapchat. Private pictures that would have been shared on the social network. Since then, the teenager found dead has reportedly been the target of mockery and insults. According to our colleagues, around forty children should be auditioned. The victim was to be heard next week.
Thursday, Emmanuel Macron announced several measures to fight against school bullying in a video posted on social networks. The President of the Republic wishes in particular to strengthen parental control on the screens used by children and a new application to help victims denounce the facts. “Harassment is still rife at school, on social networks, without leaving any moment of respite to those who are the victims,” he said. School bullying affects nearly one in ten children in France. On October 5, Dinah, 14, a secondary school student from Mulhouse, committed suicide, a victim of harassment in her establishment.