Seriously injured in the face during a fall in the courtyard of her college in December, the young Anna-Chloé, educated in Chambéry (Savoie), said she was the victim of a racist attack. The complaint filed at the time by his mother has just been dismissed, this Tuesday, March 22.
In a press release, the public prosecutor of Chambéry, Pierre-Yves Michau, indicated that “the investigation carried out by the Chambéry police station under the direction of the prosecution, which in particular allowed the hearing of a large number of witnesses, in fact demonstrated that none of the offenses denounced had been established”.
Opposite versions
The case had notably gained momentum on social networks, on which the mother of the teenager had published a text denouncing “racist verbal and even physical violence” suffered by her daughter “since the start of the school year”.
In January, the family lawyer, Me Mourad Battikh, spoke on the program Touche pas à mon poste on C8 to support this version. He had mentioned several episodes over “two-three months”, attesting that the teenager, of Cameroonian origin, had lived “gradually […] harassment”.
On November 29, Anna-Chloé was said to have been “molested”, her head stuck “in a locker” while other college students called her a “big right whale”. According to Me Battikh, a student who witnessed the scene had not been interviewed. The lawyer then criticized the prosecution which, according to him, only sought to “demonstrate a single thesis, that of Anna-Chloé falling on her own on a bench”.
The college had denied the version of the family of the teenager, and the director of the establishment, targeted by “death threats” according to his lawyer, had been placed “under police protection”. Highlighting “several testimonies” attesting that the teenager was “alone” at the time of her fall in the court, the prosecutor also refuted the accusations of Anna-Chloé’s family.