More than 2,000 people took part on Sunday in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise) in a white march in memory of a 14-year-old teenager, Alisha, who drowned on March 8, after being violently struck by two comrades and thrown into the Seine.
Many adolescents accompanied by some of their parents met in front of the establishment where Alisha and her two attackers were educated, the starting point for the walk this Sunday afternoon.
In turn, they placed bouquets of flowers and little notes in front of the door of the Cognacq-Jay private vocational school. The banner “homage to Alisha” was displayed there and white roses strewn the ground. Alisha’s mother collected, moved, in front of the establishment.
Alisha was the victim of an ambush set out by her two comrades on March 8, in the afternoon, under the viaduct of the A15 motorway, according to the first elements of the investigation revealed by the Pontoise prosecutor . In this place away from the homes, she was said to have been brutally beaten and then thrown into the river, still conscious.
The two suspects, a 15-year-old boy and girl, were indicted for murder and remanded in custody on Thursday.
More than 2,500 people came to pay homage to #Alisha for a #marcheblanche #Argenteuil very emotional @ France3Paris @franceinfoplus pic.twitter.com/AVFlsy0k2K
– Isabelle Audin (@IsabelleAudin) March 14, 2021
The two suspects had been excluded
Relationships within the trio educated in 3rd year in the same establishment, “three friends at the start”, had deteriorated during the previous weeks, between love affairs and “trivia” adolescent girls, according to the prosecution.
Things had escalated to the point that their high school had temporarily excluded the two suspects for the victim’s harassment. Alisha had seen her phone hacked and photos of her in her underwear posted on Snapchat. The two indicted were to pass a disciplinary council on March 9, the day after the tragedy.
Along the way, the slogan “stop harassment, justice for Alisha” appeared stuck on the walls of Argenteuil, about 16 km north of Paris. “It’s serious what happened”, said Tayna, a teenage girl in the procession. “Bullying does exist at school”, confided the young girl, saying herself to call her mother as soon as she undergoes it.
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