A few days after the events, the motive for the beating of the 13-year-old remains unclear, while her mother points the finger at the passivity of the staff at the college where she attended school.
It all started from a fake account created on Snapchat. A confusion like so many on social networks. This is what emerges from the testimonies of students at Arthur Rimbaud college, in Montpellier (Hérault), collected in front of the establishment. Several knew the victim, Samara, 13 years old, and one of her attackers, F., a teenager of the same age. Photos of students were allegedly published on this fake account. And it was Samara who would have been accused of having planned everything. Wrongly, says Bouchra, 14, that “Samara has been harassed for a long time”, confirming her family’s statements. Thus, without anything to confirm these assertions, he would have spread harmful rumors about her, based on photomontages of a sexual nature on fake accounts, having damaged the reputation of the teenager. A new case of cyberharassment, in all probability, but only the current judicial investigation will be able to provide clarification and confirm it or not.
Beating and threats of rape
Still, on April 2, when Arthur Rimbaud left, at 4 p.m., the young girl was allegedly dragged outside the college by F., about 200 meters away, near a meeting room. fitness. This is where Samara was allegedly violently beaten by two boys aged 14 and 15 from other schools, in contact with F. via social networks. Seriously injured in the head and rushed to the university hospital, she came out of a coma on April 3 and was due to be heard by the courts this Thursday, April 4. During this time, three minors were placed in police custody for “attempted murder of a minor”, including F. who alone allegedly confessed to the facts.
On this one, contradictory noises are circulating. The only certainty is that following a first altercation which had repercussions within the college, she was excluded from the establishment for two days in May 2023, then again the following month, according to the Montpellier rectorate, but without the reason for these sanctions having been revealed. Samara’s mother also indicated that there was a call for rape against her daughter on social networks last year. But these facts have not been linked in any way.
The other assertion by Samara’s mother relayed by the media is that her daughter was allegedly singled out and attacked because she did not wear the veil. False, according to consistent testimonies from Arthur Rimbaud’s students, according to which only the photos published on social networks, which some of them say they have seen, are at the origin of the affair. Two different versions, which the judicial investigation should try to disentangle.
“This is the first time there has been violence”
As for the staff of the college of 836 students, classified as a Priority Education Network (REP +) and located in the popular district of La Mosson-La Paillade, they found themselves accused of not having protected the victim. The head teacher of Samara’s class, however, reportedly warned her mother the same day that the young girl was threatened and that they had to come and pick her up at the school’s exit, at 4 p.m. Samara’s mother then allegedly called school life twice, asking that her daughter stay at the school until her arrival. But, by mistake, the instructions were not transmitted to the supervisor stationed near the gate. The rectorate has not officially confirmed this story, the main source once again being the victim’s mother relayed by the media.
“In this college, there have never been any problems,” assures Syrine, 20 years old, a pharmacy student, who came to pick up her little sister, in 6th grade, and who herself was a student at this college, just like her brothers. “This is the first time that there has been violence,” she assures, as does Fatiha, 47, who, sitting in her car, waits for her son, in 5th grade. According to another parent of a student, who is also a social worker for disabled children in the establishment, who did not want to give his name, “it is a calm college, with a good team”. “We are in shock,” she said, “and helpless.”
The psychological listening unit, set up on Wednesday April 3 by the Montpellier rectorate, has already welcomed a few dozen experienced students and teachers. The Ministry of National Education announced a general inspection mission to the college, starting this Friday, April 5. She is responsible for submitting a report to the minister within eight days.
2024-04-05 07:18:58
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