The adolescent family had not filed a complaint, but declares that he had reported the facts to the National Education.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
After the suicide of a 13 -year -old teenager in Golbey, in the Vosges, the Epinal prosecutor’s office opened a minor harassment investigation under 15 Thursday January 12.
According to the relatives of young Lucas, pupil in class of 4 e at Louis-Armand de Golbey college, the boy, who ended his days on Saturday, was the victim of “facts of harassment Committed by pupils of his college, because of his homosexuality, for several months, “reported the public prosecutor, Frédéric Nahon, in a press release.
The family had not filed a complaint, but “the facts had been reported to the National Education, which had received the miners,” added the magistrate. The investigation was entrusted to the Epinal police station in order to “establish the reality of the facts denounced and the causal link with suicide”, added the prosecution.
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The Minister of National Education sent his “thoughts” to the family and friends of the teenager in a tweet on Thursday. “I think of all the students like him harassed: their despair bases my determination to prevent any form of harassment,” he said. “No child must find the Minister as ultimate,” said the minister.
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The rectorate of the Grand-Est Academic Region and the Nancy-Metz Academy expressed their “emotion”, saying “upset [s] by this dramatic event” and sending their condolences to the relatives of the ‘ teenager. A psychological unit was put in place in the establishment of the boy on Monday “intended for students and teachers”, also added the rectorate in a press release, recalling that the establishment was “engaged in the flagship system for the fight against harassment “.
Lucas and his mother “had reported mockery at the start of the school year in September” and the facts had been “immediately taken seriously by the college teams, who showed great vigilance on a daily basis, while keeping The link with the student and his family “, according to the rectorate.
Lucas funeral will take place on January 14 in Epinal, according to France Bleu Sud Lorraine , who reports that the teenage parents invite those present to wear an LGBT sign in tribute to their son.