In Reunion, a 16-year-old boy recognized as 80% disabled was tortured for three days during school hours without his teachers noticing. His parents filed a complaint against the establishment and the aggressor.
It’s tears in my eyes Rémi Sanchez recounts the ordeal experienced by his 16-year-old son, who attended a college in Saint-Leu in Reunion. A student in a SEGPA class, the teenager suffers from autistic disorders and is recognized as 80% disabled. “He’s a baby with a tall body,” his parents explain. Fragile, withdrawn and unable to defend himself, the young man was easy prey to a stalker. His father tells the site Zinfo974 the ordeal lived by his son and details the extreme violence with which the abuses were inflicted on him.
“His attacker pretended to sodomize him”
“My son was tied around the neck with a rope, dragged along the ground like a dog, pinched with pliers all over his body. His ankles were tied, and the knot was so tight that his attackers had to cut him with pliers. , slashing his skin. They forced him to sit on screws, and threw his things in the mud, then ordered him to retrieve them. His attacker pretended to sodomize him with a stick. “
The facts unfolded over three days in mid-May, during class time in the workshop, without the teacher realizing it. To top it off, he even punished the teenager, wrongly accused by his attacker of several thefts. The parents filed a complaint against the abuser, the teachers and the college. “I want justice to recognize my child as a victim, and that the aggressor (s) be condemned, but also the teachers”. But the violence of the facts is such that the college itself filed a complaint against the assailant, who admitted the facts. The principal of the college, on the other hand, ruled out any breach on the part of the teachers of the establishment.
An investigation has been opened
In shock, the parents can no longer sleep. An investigation was opened and soldiers went to the college to collect the first testimonies. “But we still do not have an explanation for the fact that it happened in the classroom”, deplores the dad according to the Reunion site Clicanoo. “He was examined two weeks after the incident, but the wounds are still visible. Next week he will meet a specialist in victimology, who must in particular determine his level of vulnerability.”
12% of French college students victims of harassment
Unfortunately, the consequences of bullying extend over time. A study from the University of Pittsburgh (United States) carried out in 2017 and published in Psychological Science suggests that bullying at school weighs heavily on the conscience of victims and their tormentors, still 20 years after the events. By following 260 men in their thirties, the researchers found that those who were harassed in college have more financial difficulties, feelings of injustice and are generally less optimistic. Their abusers are more likely to use tobacco and cannabis, as well as to have a stressful life and aggressive behavior.
According to a 2014 HBSC survey, 12% of French college students are victims of bullying at school. Among the executioners, 11.5% would be boys and 6.9% girls.
Source: HBSC 2014 survey
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