Pap Ndiaye will receive Lindsay’s family on Monday, three weeks after the teenager’s suicide

A gesture of support. The Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, will receive Monday afternoon, June 5, the family of the young Lindsay, 13, who committed suicide in May after being the victim of school bullying.

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Pap Ndiaye admitted Thursday, on BFMTV, that “Lindsay’s death, her suicide” was “a collective failure”, “a tragedy for his loved ones, for National Education and for the country, as for the suicide of any young person”. He had also ensured to follow “personally” the girl’s suicide file. When questioned, the minister replied that he had not, until then, been able to get in touch with the family of the teenager. In a press conference the same day, the lawyer for the girl’s parents, Pierre Debuisson, had deplored the lack of support from the minister.

“The state must not continue to remain powerless”

“We are waiting for the Minister to show us that he is well aware of the degree of seriousness of this human tragedy and beyond that, of the scourge of school harassment which plagues all colleges in France”reacted Pierre Debuisson, questioned Monday by AFP.

He hopes it won’t be a “facade posture”. “We would like it to be accompanied by concrete, pragmatic measures intended to curb this phenomenon”he launched. “The state must not continue to remain powerless and turn a blind eye”, “denial in the face of the magnitude of this disaster must end”, he added.

In this case, three complaints have been filed against the management of the college, the Lille academy and the police in charge of the investigation for “non-assistance to anyone in danger”. A fourth targets the social network Facebook.