A schoolboy, suspected of having harassed a high school student going through gender transition, arrested in the middle of class

After the emotion, it’s time for action. A schoolboy from Alfortville (Val-de-Marne) was arrested this Monday, September 18 in the middle of class by police officers. He is suspected of having threatened and insulted a young high school student on Instagram over the weekend. Homophobic remarks while the young girl, aged 15, is in the middle of a gender transition.

According to information from Parisian, the high school student was chatting with classmates on an Instagram group to which the middle school student, friend of a high school student, was invited. He was thus able to clearly be identified through his account. The nature of the comments made pushed several high school students to dissociate themselves from the middle school student and left the group.

Presented to a judge

What is of concern is the nature of the intervention of the police officers who did not hesitate to burst into the school to apprehend the student. According to initial findings, he would have made death threats and incited the high school student to commit suicide, which would have triggered the rapid and authoritarian intervention of the police.

Placed in police custody, the schoolboy admitted the facts this Tuesday, September 19 and must be presented to a judge. The high school student who invited him to the group should also be heard. According to Le Parisien, the schoolboy in question would be in great suffering, failing at school, and would be raised by his grandfather after the death of his father. He would also have been excluded twice from two other colleges.

According to 20 Minutesthe alert was launched Monday morning around 10 a.m., by the girl’s father who began her gender transition on September 15.

“An electroshock”, wanted by Gabriel Attal

This case of harassment comes after the emotion aroused by the suicide of Nicolas in Poissy (Yveniles), a 15-year-old high school student, victim of school harassment.

After this affair, the Minister of National Education, Gabriel Attal, promised Monday evening before the rectors of the country “electroshock at all levels” in the fight against school bullying. An audit on the management of cases identified from September 2022 to September 2023 will be launched in each academy. The conclusions are expected within a month.