NARRATIVE – Since November 18, 2023, Thomas was stabbed to death at a ball in Crépol, his rugby club in Drôme, where he was captain, has been licking his wounds. But the suffering of his teammates remains acute. And worries coaches, managers, and parents.
For a year, this has been worrying Martine*: at the table in the evening, she sees her son deep in thought. With his nose in his plate, Louis*, 17 years old, “has a blank look”. He brushes aside the questions with a few words. “At night, I hear him turning in his bed, getting up. In high school, he gave up, his results plummeted. We moved it from general to technological.”she says. Recently, management called her. “A teacher found Louis haggard, wandering the corridors during an hour of class.”
After the murder of Thomas, her rugby teammate and friend, Martine suggested that Louis confide in a psychologist from Romans-sur-Isère. “He told me: “You’re not going to spend money on that, mom.”. Since then, the mother has not wanted to bury the subject, but she no longer knows how to approach it. “As parents, we are helpless. We know that, even if time passes, our children are always filled with sadness and anger. And that’s…
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