before Amandine’s death, these distress signals ignored

It’s a “blue under the eye» which alerted the management of Amandine’s high school in November 2018. The teenager, then aged 12, had just started fifth grade at the François Combes school campus in Montpellier. This establishment is used to welcoming profiles “complicated“. She was immediately received by the principal education advisor (CPE) to whom she explained that she “was in the car with his father-in-law when they drove over a speed bump. She caught her glasses in her eye», Reports the official before the Montpellier Assize Court. A little less than two years later, the body “cachectic» – a medical term which translates extreme weight loss – of Amandine will be found in her house in Montblanc, in Hérault. The teenager died of starvation after years of abuse. His mother was brought to justice and faces life imprisonment. His father-in-law is on trial for “deprivation of care“. Since childhood, Sandrine P. had established a cycle of violence and humiliation, which no one came to interrupt.