four minors indicted after the suicide of a teenager in Pas-de-Calais

Four minors have been indicted on charges of “school harassment leading to suicide”, after the suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) on May 12, announced Thursday 25 May the prosecutor of Béthune (Pas-de-Calais) in a press release.

The suicide of the teenager had led to the opening of a judicial investigation on May 20, “heads of school harassment having as its object or effect a deterioration in living conditions affecting health and having led the victim to suicide or attempted suicide and death threats”, specifies the prosecution in this press release. In parallel with the four minors indicted, a fifth person, an adult, was indicted for “death threats”, he added. The five people were placed under judicial control “in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor’s office”.

According to the rectorate of the Lille academy, the pupil who committed suicide, Lindsay, was educated in 4th grade at the Bracke-Desrousseau college in Vendin-le-Vieil. A “first harassment situation” had been reported concerning it, and had been “processed by the establishment”, said the rectorate to AFP. She had led to “a harassment commission and the appropriate sanctions had been pronounced”. A student, implicated at that time, had then left the establishment.