Cyberstalkers’ phones may be confiscated if convicted
Jean-Noël Barrot specifies that the telephone of cyberstalkers could “be confiscated in the event of conviction”.
From the start of a judicial review, a judge can ban a student from social networks
An investigating judge may choose to “ban from social networks” a student suspected of cyberharassment, announces Jean-Noël Barrot.
The Internet security bill currently provides for banning once the perpetrator is convicted.
The Minister of Digital calls for all acts of harassment to be reported to the platforms and to 3018
“When you are a victim or a witness, there is one thing to do: report,” insists Jean-Noël Barrot.
“It is necessary to report to the platform (on which an act of cyberharassment) was carried out but also on the 3018 platform”, further specifies the Minister Delegate for Digital.
A prevention booklet and a digital passport for all 6th grade students
The digital passport will be generalized to all 6th grade students, allowing them to be aware of cyberbullying.
A prevention booklet will also be distributed.
A thousand young athletes victims of cyberharassment each year
A thousand young athletes are victims of cyberharassment “following sports betting” or “simple bad game results”, says the Minister of Sports.
“We will act before the Olympics to see a tangible difference in the lives of our athletes,” promises Amélie Oudéa-Castera.
It is now the turn of Jean-Noël Barrot, the Minister for Digital Affairs.
The Minister of Sports wants to make sports education “an essential link” in the fight against school bullying
Amélie Oudéa-Castera announces that she will include a “module relating to the fight against harassment” in the training of sports educators who are “an essential link in this fight”.
Attal calls for “less harassment and more happiness at school”
“I have a goal: less harassment, more happiness at school,” concluded Gabriel Attal.
It is the turn of Amélie Oudéa-Castera, the Minister of Sports, to speak.
“We must put people back on all floors”: we cannot solve harassment with “letters”
After the scandal of the letter sent to the parents of Nicolas, a teenager who committed suicide in Poissy at the beginning of September, Gabriel Attal calls “for putting humanity back on all levels”.
“It is not with letters that we solve school bullying”.
The detection questionnaire on school bullying offered to students on November 9
The questionnaire announced by the Prime Minister which wants to “be a detection test” will be offered to all students from CE2 class on November 9, during the national day against school bullying.
Two hours will be made commonplace in all schools in France.
Attal will include “empathy courses” in the school curriculum
Gabriel Attal announces the inclusion in the school curriculum of “empathy courses” as in Denmark.
A piloted school will be launched in each department from the start of the 2024 school year.
“School bullying has collapsed in this country thanks to this strategy”, specifies the minister who visited this country last week.
“To speak is already to resist”: for Attal, “the page of silence is turning”
“The page of silence is turning,” welcomes Gabriel Attal, for whom “the page of silence is turning.”
“We are witnessing tsunamis of testimonies in recent days”: Attal explains that the number of reports has increased threefold
“We are witnessing tsunamis of testimonies in recent days,” explains Gabriel Attal, who mentions the 3-fold increase in reports in just a few weeks.
Attal thanks Borne “infinitely” for his involvement in the fight against school bullying
It’s Gabriel Attal’s turn to speak. The Minister of National Education thanks “deeply and infinitely” for his involvement in the fight against school bullying.
Harassers will have to take citizenship courses
Élisabeth Borne wants the deployment of “citizenship courses with measures on harassment” for harassers.
Prison sentences are “possible” for “the most serious cases”, the Prime Minister further clarified.
Borne wants “rapid sanctions” against harassers and requests “systematic” referral to the prosecutor
Élisabeth Borne requests “systematic” referral to the prosecutor in the event of a report.
“We want rapid sanctions,” explained the Prime Minister.
A risk self-assessment grid launched
Élisabeth Borne announces the creation of a self-assessment grid for children.
This device already exists but remains little known.
3018, “single number” against school bullying
3018 will become a single number to report a case of school bullying.
There are currently two reporting platforms.
Sports educators now trained in the fight against school bullying
The training of sports educators will now include a component on the fight against school bullying, announces Élisabeth Borne.
“From the beginning of 2024, supervisors of collective reception of minors” such as colonies “will be trained”.
Borne promises “a relentless fight” against school bullying
The Prime Minister promises “general mobilization” and “a relentless fight” against school bullying.
“The only response is collective”: for Borne, harassment “goes beyond the borders of the school”
“National Education is on the front line but combating harassment goes beyond the borders of the school,” explains the Prime Minister, about this interministerial plan.
“The only response is collective,” asserts Élisabeth Borne.
Bullying at school “is a daily occurrence that no adult would tolerate”
Citing the bullying, the beatings, the mockery to which hundreds of thousands of students are victims every year, Élisabeth Borne believes that “it’s a daily life that no adult would tolerate”.
These first names sound like a failure”: to begin her speech, Élisabeth Borne lists the first names of Lindsay, Nicolas and Lucas
The Prime Minister begins her speech by citing the names of several teenagers who have killed themselves, victims of school bullying.
“Each of her first names sounds like a failure,” regrets the tenant of Matignon.
Élisabeth Borne begins to unveil her plan to combat school bullying
The Prime Minister is beginning to speak about her interministerial plan, announced in June after Lindsay’s suicide in Pas-de-Calais at age 13.
The objective is “to better prevent tragedies such as those that have occurred in recent months and to report on existing failures”.
Announcements that rely on several ministries, at the risk of not taking off
Élisabeth Borne will not be alone in presenting her interministerial plan to combat school bullying.
Several ministers will be present, such as of course Gabriel Attal (National Education) but also Éric Dupond-Moretti (Justice), Gérald Darmanin (Interior) and Jean-Noël Barrot (Digital).
At the risk of diluting the promised “electroshock”?
“When everyone is responsible, no one is responsible in the end,” remarks to BFMTV.com a ministerial advisor who is closely following the matter.
Here we summarize for you why some people are worried about announcements which should be very widespread.
“The playground is the jungle”: against school bullying, how primary schools cope
According to a Senate report from 2021, 12% of primary school students are bullied. And for some 5% of them, it is “severe” harassment.
However, devices exist but they contain serious flaws, according to testimonies collected by BFMTV.com.
Read our article here which tells how school teachers try to deal with school bullying.
“About fifteen years to get over it”: a member of parliament testifies to the school harassment of which she was a victim
Renaissance MP Virginie Lanlo moved the National Assembly yesterday by reading the words addressed to her former harasser at college in a letter.
“Your actions ruined my life as a child and adolescent. I was able to rebuild myself and build a wonderful family. But I will never forget these hours of suffering and distress,” she said in the hemicycle.
“For at least ten or fifteen years, I thought about it every day. It took me about fifteen years to get over it if I think about it,” explained this parliamentarian on BFMTV this morning.
Brigades, questionnaire… What the plan against school bullying should contain
The plan unveiled by Élisabeth Borne to fight against school bullying should contain:
-the deployment of a student self-assessment questionnaire with the objective of discreetly reporting discomfort and allowing educational teams to intervene.
-The banning of convicted student harassers from social networks for a period of 6 months or a year in the event of a repeat offense.
-anti-harassment brigades with ambassador teachers and student advisors.
We summarize everything for you here.
The government is taking action to combat school bullying
Hello everyone,
Welcome to this live to follow the announcements of the anti-school harassment plan unveiled this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. by Élisabeth Borne.
The government is expected to take action on this scourge which affects between 800,000 and a million students each year.
In recent months, several suicides of teenagers victims of school bullying have moved the whole of France, from that of Linsday and Lucas, both aged 13, to Nicolas, 15, who hanged himself at his home in Yvelines.