“When a child dies, there are no words to express the grief and pain. What do you want me to tell you?” this is what the Minister of National Education Pap N’Diaye said last Wednesday before the Senate, following the tragic death of a 13-year-old boy, Lucas, who hanged himself at home. in Golbey (Vosges), on January 7. And while the family is not yet out of the silence, at the Louis-Armand college, in the suburbs of Épinal, where Lucas was harassed for his homosexuality, the Parisian investigated the case.
“Lucas served as a target for them”
While the whole of France was upset by this tragedy, we learn that there would have been four students in the class who formed “a small group (who held the class under the threat of cruel words” and “Lucas served as a target for them” as noted by our colleagues. And to add, quoting a student mother: “Those who bothered her were a minority, but they took up a lot of space“.
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Lucas lived badly at school, first, but also on social networks, since his harassment continued outside of recess. at home. The Parisian cites one attack in particular, which occurred on Snapchat. In the group of his school, Lucas had that day asked a question about an oral presentation to be prepared for the next day and a bully would then have answered him: “Who wants LGBT?”. In his class, two people reportedly condemned the remarks.
“I cut Lucas’ Snap, at the slightest concern I come to college”
A conversation that stopped shortly after, on the intervention of Lucas’s mother. After discovering the violence of the messages he was receiving, the latter felt that it had been “too far”. And to comment: “I cut Lucas’ Snap, at the slightest concern I come to college”. A measure that did not fully protect the child from the demons who continued to hurt him…
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