According to his family, Dinah, 14, would have been harassed by other teenage girls for more than two years because of his sexual orientation, before putting an end to his life.
Le Monde with AFP
More than a thousand people participated, Sunday, October 24, in Mulhouse, a white Walk in the memory of Dinah, a 14-year-old teenager who committed suicide, victim of school harassment according to his family.
The procession, led by the parents and the brother of the teenager who hanged on the night from October 4th to the 5th at his home, traveled the streets of the city center, massed behind a banner proclaiming: ” Dinah, forever in our hearts “. The words “Dinah rest in peace” and “has the memory of Dinah. Stop Harassment”, barred other banners. Among the participants in the march, come for a lot of family and a white rose by hand, some have chanted “Justice for Dinah”, “the words hurt, the words kill” or “more never”.
“She was called Dinah, she was going to be 15 years old,” said the mother of the teenager before the departure of the procession, launching, the broken voice, this call: “It is necessary that harassment ceases”.
“My daughter was harassed for two years, for two years, we made feet and hands so that it stops”, but she was “continued to the house, to social networks “She explained. Dinah “was a smart person, she liked life, she wanted to be president of the republic, she wanted to do the right, she wanted to do so many things,” continued his mother. “I beg you, those who have children, talk to them, tell them not to harass, tell them that it is serious, and for the others, tell them to defend themselves,” She still implored.
Harcast for two years
on RTL , his mother told the gear that started when it was in class of 4 e . “Dinah had a small group of friends and, one day, she had the misfortune to tell them that she was LGBT. (…) They created a WhatsApp group to make fun of her before getting up shouting her In the corridors of the college and insulting “dirty lesbian”, “dirty intello”, “dirty race” or “dirty Métis” “.
According to the mother of Dinah, who criticized the faculty of “negligence” and to have “closed his eyes” on the drama lived by his daughter, she had received messages like “do not worry You will soon die “or” we will send you links on the internet so that you can burst “, after a first attempt of suicide, in March. Arrival in front of Lambert High School whom the teenager frequented, the crowd cropped “Dinah, Dinah, Dinah …” Under the applause, before dispersing. According to France blue , the family intends to file a complaint against the college where the teenager had been educated.
Friday, the Attorney of the Republic of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot, had announced to the France-Presse agency that an investigation for the search for the causes of death had been opened. It must allow “to understand the reasons for the gesture of this teenage girl who had been the object according to his relatives of harassment within his school for a while before,” she said. “In the immediate future,” the harassment is “a hypothesis”, insisted the magistrate.