the teenager was indeed the victim of harassment according to National Education

This report was included in the legal file, while the family of the schoolboy found dead in 2023 appealed to the Court of Cassation

Conclusions rendered two years after the facts. The National Education investigation into the suicide in 2023 of Lucas, a 13-year-old teenager from Vosges, concludes that he was indeed the victim of harassment by other students, the ministry announced on Tuesday, December 17. AFP, confirming information from Paris Match. This administrative investigation was announced by the then minister, Pap Ndiaye, after the national uproar that the suicide of this teenager had caused.

Young Lucas committed suicide in Golbey (Vosges) on January 7, 2023 after writing a note expressing his desire to end his life. Those close to him had denounced acts of harassment, revealing the mockery and homophobic insults of which the teenager had said he was the victim from students at his college. Four teenagers from his college, prosecuted for “harassment leading to suicide”, were convicted at first instance, without the link between the harassment and Lucas’ suicide being established. They were later acquitted on appeal. The prosecution and the boy’s family appealed to the Court of Cassation.

If the report resulting from the investigation has not been made public, “the investigation concludes that there were acts of harassment”, “both in the school establishment and on social networks”explains the ministry, which however did not comment on a homophobic dimension of the harassment denounced by those close to it. “The file has been submitted to the courts, because the family is appealing to the Court of Cassation, and afterwards, it will be up to the courts to do their job”continues the Ministry of Education. “It all depends on who is accused, but this confirms a situation that we knew about and which had not been recognized as an offense of harassment”for her part reacted the family lawyer, Catherine Faivre.