The suicide of Dinah, a 14-year-old Alsatian girl harassed by a group of students from her college, caused a stir. The day after a white march in his memory, Jean-Michel Blanquer expressed on
Europe 1 his compassion to the family of the young victim and also called “not to get carried away” concerning the sanctions to be taken.
“All these facts must be reported and followed by sanctions, but having criminal consequences for events that take place in schools is already fairly new”, insisted the Minister of Education. For the latter, the teenagers who harassed Dinah must nevertheless remain in school. “We cannot exclude ad vitam aeternam someone who has been a stalker. It’s complex. It’s adolescence, with all that that means, ”he explained. He also considered that the closed prison for minors perpetrators of violence against teachers was an unthinkable measure.
An investigation underway to understand the reasons for Dinah’s suicide
Inviting everyone to keep their cool Jean-Michel Blanquer stressed that “Laxism” was “not part” of his “register”: “Each case is specific and, as regards the reaction, it is obviously necessary to be d ‘great severity, “said the minister who rejects” any cliché on national education, including the famous “no wave” which would be our doctrine “. “There is less self-censorship. If teachers know that if they report [des faits de harcèlement], there is a follow-up, ”continued Jean-Michel.
Dinah ended her life by hanging herself in her bedroom the night of October 4-5 in Kingersheim after being the victim of harassment for two years, according to her mother. The prosecution said Friday that an investigation to search for the causes of death had been opened, in order “to understand the reasons for the gesture of this teenager”