Teenage girl attacked in front of her college in Montpellier, what we know: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

In Montpellier, after classes at Arthur Rimbaud college, a student was severely beaten by around twenty individualsreports BFMTV on Wednesday April 3, 2024. Three were arrested. Seriously injured, Samara was plunged into an artificial coma at Lapeyronie University Hospital, and woke up that same day. According to information from local media The MetropolitanSamara was reportedly hit by around twenty individuals, including three students from the same establishment. “One of the people involved, a 14-year-old minor attending the same establishment, has just been arrested” said the Montpellier public prosecutor’s office. Accused of “attempted murder of a minor under the age of 15”, the 14-year-old admitted during her hearing to having struck. “On Tuesday, after the events, classmates informed me that my daughter had already been attacked last week, also in front of the Arthur Rimbaud college. My daughter had said nothing to me and I had not noticed any traces suspicious sudden or abnormal behavior” the victim’s mother told Métropolitain.

An attack under the background of school harassment

On the day of the attack, Samara’s mother told BFMTV that she had spoken to her daughter’s homeroom teacher on the phone. He asked her to come get her at the end of classes because “a group of young people, who were not from the college, were outside the establishment and waiting for Samara.” “I called school life twice to ask them not to let my daughter out and they let her out” she laments, “Last year, there was a call for the rape of my daughter by this same young student who is in middle school. She is tied up, tobacco is put in her nose… She lets herself be molested and she do not say anything.” The prefect and the Rector went to the site. As for the Minister of Education Nicole Belloubet, she announced on her X account her support for the family, as well as for Samara, and added that “All light must be shed on this unbearable act. A listening cell and security teams are already on site.”