Suicide of Dinah, victim of school harassment: the point on the investigation

Dinah, 14, hung up at the beginning of the month.For his family, there is no doubt: it is the epilogue of a two -year -old school harassment.

This Sunday, in Mulhouse, a white march cried Dinah.The 14-year-old teenager hung in her room in Kingersheim in Haut-Rhin, on the night of October 4 to 5.For his family, obvious: this desperate gesture stems directly from school harassment which the teenager had been the victim for two years.Today, the relatives of the girl accuse her former laxity college.

While Dinah's mother decided to file a complaint against X and the establishment, the Mulhouse prosecution opened an investigation.This Monday, Jean-Michel Blanquer calls for the measure.Bfmtv.com takes stock of this affair which agitates the world of education.

• His family describes two years of harassment

It was on the night of October 4 to 5 that Dinah, 14, ended her life.She was found hanging in her room, at the family home in Kingersheim, in the Haut-Rhin.Her family immediately saw the tragic outcome of a school harassment cycle that started two years ago when the girl was in the fourth.According to relatives of the teenager, she was the victim of the persecution of a group made up of some of her former friends, who had confided to be interested in women.

Outside social networks, harassment finds a very concrete translation on a daily basis, as said by Samira Gonthier, Dinah's mother, Sunday on the sidelines of the white march organized in memory of her daughter in Mulhouse.""""In class we jostled her, we knew her chair, she could spend an hour shaken.We also took her correspondence book to draw obscenities on it, """"she said in front of our camera.

Après sa première tentative de suicide, on lui souhaite """"de ne pas se rater""""

During the last confinement, Samira Gonthier wants to react by depositing a handrail.Dinah, who fears that the procedure still worsened things, the discouragement of going to the end of her idea.It was during this period, in March 2021, that the teenager tried to end her days for the first time.

There follows an exchange of letters between Dinah and her presumed persecutors.The first apologies, while the latter overwhelm him by wishing him not to """"miss"""" during a next attempt, according to Samira Gonthier who explains that he has torn this incendiary response.

Meanwhile, Dinah rebuilds, and obtains his college certificate with the mention """"very good"""".His arrival at Lycée Lambert in Mulhouse, at the start of the school year, leaves a time to hope that the situation will work out.Unfortunately, in the canteen, she sometimes meets some of her old friends and the teenager """"dresses"""", according to her brother Rayan's word.

• Justice is careful

After mourning, make way for the judicial component.If justice has taken hold of the file, it intends to deal with caution.Thus, Edwige Roux-Morizot, a prosecutor of the Republic indicated on Friday that the Mulhouse prosecution for which she is responsible had opened an investigation for """"search for the causes of death"""".An investigation which should make it possible to establish """"the reasons for the gesture of this teenager"""".

""""In the immediate future,"""" recalled the magistrate, the track of school harassment is only a simple """"hypothesis"""".""""The current operation of your phone and computer will allow you to know a little more,"""" she said.

Samira Gonthier, on the other hand, persuaded that her daughter's suicide was well caused by the persecution of her classmates, announced her will to file a complaint.Against X first, but also against the former college of her child.

• The responsibility of the questioned college

Because it is towards the old establishment that the looks now converge.What did the direction and supervision of the actions perpetrated against Dinah know?Did they take the measure and what means have they set up to try to end it?Almost none, in the eyes of Samira Gonthier.

On the sidelines of the white march, it has indeed developed: """"Several times I called the college and nothing was done.""""According to the bereaved mother, the establishment adopted a casual position in front of her solicitations:"""" They were 'small kids', it was 'nothing', it was my daughter who made a whole dish.""""

Sur Europe 1, elle a soutenu que la responsabilité n'en incombait pas à la seule direction mais aussi aux enseignants: """"Le corps enseignant n'a rien fait pour ma fille, ils m'ont dit que c'était des banalités entre copines.""""

A confrontation was however organized between Dinah and its presumed harassment in the office of the Senior Education Advisor.The decisions of the college obviously interest the investigators and, according to information from RMC this Monday morning, the principle of the latter was heard by the police on Thursday.

• Le gouvernement écarte tout """"laxisme""""

Jean-Michel Blanquer was held on a narrow crest line this Monday when talking about the case. Interrogé à ce propos au micro d'Europe 1, il a voulu à la fois réaffirmer que le """"laxisme ne (faisait) pas partie de son registre"""", tout en appelant à """"ne pas s'emballer"""".

""""Avoir des suites pénales pour des faits qui se passent en milieu scolaire, c’est déjà quelque chose d’assez nouveau"""", a-t-il observé. """"Beaucoup d'établissements ont progressé dans la lutte contre le harcèlement"""", a encore fait valoir le ministre qui a toutefois admis: """"Mais nous avons encore des difficultés concernant le cyberharcèlement"""".Jean-Michel Blanquer finally indicated that he had recently exchanged with the platforms responsible for fighting this scourge.

The case is all the more sensitive and painful as it is a mass phenomenon.Thus, according to the statistics advanced by the mutual insurance insurance (MAE) and relayed by AFP, 700.000 students out of the 12 million that the French school has likely to be the subject of harassment.