More than 2,000 people took part, on Sunday March 14, in Argenteuil (Val d’Oise) to a white step in memory Alisha, 14-year-old girl who drowned on March 8, after being violently beaten by two comrades and thrown into the Seine, noted a journalist fromAFP.
The two suspects, a 15-year-old boy and girl, have been indicted for murder and placed in pre-trial detention on Thursday.
Early Sunday afternoon, 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 march.
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In turn, they placed bouquets of flowers and little words in front of the door of the private professional high school Cognacq-Jay. The banner “homage to Alisha” was displayed there and white roses strewn the ground. Alisha’s mother gathered, moved, in front of the establishment.
Maeva, a 15-year-old girl who was in the same class as Alisha last year, wore a white T-shirt in the image of the girl to participate in the march and “To pay homage to a good, kind girl, far from the stories”.
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 homes, she was said to have been brutally beaten and then thrown into the river, still conscious.
“It’s serious what happened”
Relationships within the trio educated in Third 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 the Snapchat social network. 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”, the young girl confided, saying herself to call her mother as soon as she experiences it.
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