“It is with great emotion that we learned of the death of Jonathan Destin last Saturday”, reacted the TF1 group to the announcement of the death, at 27, of the one who was a spearhead in the fight against school bullying.
Harassed at school and college for more than six years, he attempted suicide in 2011, setting himself on fire. Jonathan Destin, who was 16 at the time, burned to 72%, had survived. He has since intervened regularly in schools to raise students’ awareness of the issue of bullying and its disastrous consequences.
TF1 had adapted, in 2018, his autobiographical book, doomed to kill me. In tribute to Jonathan Destin, the TV movie, with Camille Chamoux and Michaël Youn, entitled The day I burned my hearthas just been put online, free of charge, on MyTF1.fr.
A documentary also on the program
The audiovisual group has also made available on its platform the documentary School harassment: Jonathan’s ordeal.
The body of Jonathan Destin was discovered on Saturday at his home in Marquette-Lez-Lille (Nord). The Lille prosecutor’s office has opened “an investigation into the causes of death”. His mother wrote on Facebook that he died “in his sleep”.