After the suicide of 14-year-old Dinah, the Mulhouse prosecutor’s office opens an investigation for “harassment” – archyworldys

The Mulhouse prosecutor’s office opened on Monday, October 25, an investigation for “harassment” after Dinah’s suicide in early October, we learned from the city’s public prosecutor. “An investigation has been opened for acts of harassment denounced by the mother” of the 14-year-old high school student, a victim of school harassment according to her relatives, said prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot.

During a white march that brought together sunday more than a thousand people in Mulhouse, Dinah’s mother had questioned several of her comrades in front of journalists. “It is important that we go and check all these elements”, said the prosecutor.

Teachers accused of having “closed their eyes”

According to her parents, Dinah was the victim of harassment operated by young girls in college and to whom she had confided her homosexuality. His mother also criticized the teaching staff for having ” close your eyes “ on the drama experienced by his daughter. She had received messages like “Don’t worry you will die soon”, Where “We will send you links on the Internet so that you can die”, after a first suicide attempt in March.

Dinah, whose mother is of Moroccan origin, suffered insults “Racist or homophobic”, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) his father, of Reunion origin. “In her class, there were two students who supported her, the others took her down”, according to him.

The teenager, educated in second class, was found hanged at the family home in Kingersheim (Haut-Rhin), on the night of October 4 to 5. She was the last and only daughter of three siblings.

Initially, the prosecution opened an investigation to “Search for the causes of death”. The investigation was entrusted to the Wittenheim (Haut-Rhin) police station, said the prosecution, which also seized the central office for the fight against online hate in order to “Search for a number of items in the phone and in the computer” of the teenager. No complaint has yet been filed, added the prosecutor. But Dinah’s mother announced on Sunday her intention to drop one after the 40-day mourning period observed by the Muslim religion.

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