A 14-year-old girl committed suicide on the night of November 11-12. She was allegedly harassed following a leak of pornographic images.
It is in Morbihan, in the country of Lorient, that a 14 year old girl committed suicide at the end of last week. The girl ended her days in the night from November 11 to 12 at the family home. For the public prosecutor of Lorient, Stéphane Kellenberger, “the findings left no doubt as to autolysis by hanging”. A investigation was opened and co-entered by the local brigade and the Lorient search brigade to understand the exact circumstances of this tragedy.
Another investigation had been opened a few months earlier, implicating the young girl in a case of transmission ofpornographic images. She and several other minors from her private college reportedly transmitted via Snapchat photos of their naked bodies to boys in their class, who then passed them around. It was from then that the girl would have started to be victim of harassment in college : according to one of the parents of the students, the teenager would have suffered bullying following this incident, mockery and insults which would have pushed the 14-year-old girl to come to this desperate gesture.
School bullying and suicide: alarming figures
The funeral of the young teenager was celebrated Thursday, November 18, a day dedicated to the fight against bullying at school. It’s about 20th child suicide since January 1, 2021, since the suicide of Chanel, 12, which took place on September 30, and that of Dinah, 14, which took place on October 5. Alarming figures, as confirmed the parliamentary report published in October 2020: 5 to 6% of students in France would be victims, either 700,000 children.
In the digital age, this physical and psychological violence that occurs in the school environment does not stop at the doors of the establishments: for the alpha generation, the passage from bullying in the presence to cyberbullying functions as a double sentence.
With 40% of primary school students on social networks, and 81% for 12-15 year olds – according to a study carried out by Infobip and Yougov – the risks of being harassed are exploding. Having no refuge even after returning home, victims of bullying have no pressure relief valve.