“This minor should not have died (…) Justice must clarify the homophobic circumstances of this drama,” French ambassador for LGTB+ rights, Jean-Marc Berthon, told France Inter radio this Friday.
Lucas committed suicide on Saturday in Golbey (northeast). Even though the family never reported to the courts the bullying they suffered at their school, he did report it to the educational authorities.
The adolescent had written in his private diary “a message explaining his will to put an end to his days”, The Épinal prosecutor, Frédéric Nahon, indicated this Friday.
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The judicial investigation must determine the “causal relationship” between the acts of bullying pointed out by his family and the suicide, said Nahon, prudent.
The public representative stressed that they should also examine the “different measures adopted”as well as “the clue of cyberbullying”.
Lucas and his mother “they reported teasing at the beginning of the course in September”, that the Louis-Armand Secondary School took itself “seriously”, staying “daily watchman” defended the local rectory.
After learning of his death, the authorities launched psychological care for students and teachers at the center, said this source, specifying that the center was already participating in a program of “fight against bullying”.
Education Minister Pap Ndiaye expressed his “determination to prevent any form of harassment”. “No child should find suicide the last way out,” he tweeted.
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The family’s lawyer, Catherine Faivre, told AFP that, before considering the possibility of filing a complaint, her parents “they want to bury their son in peace”“in the strictest privacy, without the press.”
Faivre indicated that Lucas’s sexual orientation was public and that he assumed it “How can a 13-year-old boy assume it?”
The funeral is scheduled in the town of Épinal on Saturday. The Stop Homophobie organization reported that their parents asked attendees to wear LGBTI symbols in a show of solidarity.
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