Nnew attack against a backdrop of school harassment. A 10-year-old girl was hospitalized for nearly a week after suffering a violent attack in the playground of her primary school on 9e district of Marseille. According to France 3, the student was attacked by several classmates during the lunch break on Friday June 7.
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In a state of shock when her mother arrived at the school, she reportedly said she had been “hit on the head”. “My daughter lost consciousness while he was kicking her in the head, she was bleeding,” the mother told the local newspaper. Head injured and traumatized, the girl was hospitalized for several days.
An investigation was opened for violence in meetings and school harassment on June 12, “following a report sent by a hospital center”, indicates the Marseille prosecutor’s office. Parisian.
Harassed for several months
The victim’s mother assures that her daughter, who is in CM1 class, has been the victim of school harassment for several months. One of her comrades in particular called her daily “fat”, “ugly” and he “shot[ait] the hair “. She says she “reported it numerous times” to the establishment but nothing “was done,” reports France 3.
READ ALSO Samara, school icon in dangerAccording to information from Figaro, the little girl was attacked by a group of five students, including her harasser, who is accused of being the instigator of this beating. “Students who witnessed the scene reported that they hit his head as if it were a ball. A student even jumped on him with both feet, all before the eyes of my 8-year-old son,” the mother testified to the national daily. “My daughter was massacred,” she added.
The little girl was only able to return home a week later, but is still traumatized. “It’s practically 15 anxiety attacks a day,” her mother reports to France Bleu, who specifies that her daughter no longer wants to go back to school.
READ ALSO School bullying: how to detect the warning signs in your childThe mother filed a complaint against the five children. The student, designated as the leader, was excluded from the establishment for five days. He has since returned to class. The rectorate of the Aix-Marseille academy specifies to France Bleu that this five-day exclusion, “for the moment”, was pronounced “pending the results of the investigations”, but “a change of school is considered”. According to the rectorate, investigations are underway by the academy’s pHARe unit and the department’s anti-harassment unit.
