a teacher will be tried for harassment of minors

This teacher, sent back to prison, is accused of having “regularly humiliated” the little 11-year-old girl in front of her class, of having “isolated her in the back” and of having “stigmatized” her during “school hours”. classroom life relating to school bullying”.

A teacher from Evaëlle, an 11-year-old schoolgirl who committed suicide in 2019 in Val-d’Oise, was sent to correctional custody for harassment of minors by an investigating judge from Pontoise, according to the referral order consulted Thursday March 21 by AFP.

He is accused of having “regularly humiliated” Evaëlle in front of her class, to have it “isolated at the bottom” and having organized “hours of classroom life relating to school bullying during which she stigmatized her as being a victim of harassment by her classmates and forced her to answer their questions”writes the judge in her order.

All of these behaviors had “the effect was a very significant deterioration in the living conditions of the young girl who isolated herself more and more”. On June 21, 2019, Evaëlle’s father found his 11-year-old daughter hanging from her bed in their house in Herblay (Val-d’Oise).

Bullying from primary school

Six months earlier, the teenager had tried to set fire to a beam in the house after a friendly breakup. Since entering sixth grade at the Isabelle Autissier college in Herblay, problems had multiplied for the young girl, already the victim of bullying in primary school.

Beyond the insulting and violent behavior of classmates, Evaëlle had faced tensions with her French teacher over the implementation of a medical protocol relating to back problems. Initially, the situation was resolved internally and the teenager, described as precocious, cheerful, but having difficulties in social relationships, was no longer afraid of going to French class.

Charged with harassment of other students

However, a few months later, during a session devoted to school bullying, the teacher asked the students to express their criticisms to Evaëlle who then had to explain herself. Faced with her tears, the teacher became angry and ordered her to answer the questions, according to the students’ stories.

In February 2019, Evaëlle’s parents filed a complaint against students and withdrew their daughter from college. She had since been followed by a psychologist but a new violent behavior in her new school had caused her to act out. The teacher is also accused of having harassed two other middle school students and obtained a dismissal for a fourth student.

As for the three teenagers initially prosecuted for having harassed Evaëlle, one benefited from a dismissal of the case and two were referred to the children’s court for harassment of a minor.