According to foreign media reports, on October 24, local time, about 1,400 people marched on the streets of Mulhouse, France, to express their remembrance to Dinah, a 14-year-old middle school student. According to her loved ones, Dinah was a victim of bullying in schools and suffered from both racism and homophobia.
"Dinah is a smart kid, she loves life, she wants to be president of the republic, she wants to be a lawyer, she has a lot of things she wants to do," Dinah's mother, Samira, said in front of the crowd at the march.
On the evening of October 4, in Cangersan, Haute-Rhine, France, Dinah, a second-year junior high school student, was found hanging from his home. Dinah is the youngest and only daughter of the family's three siblings, and in a few weeks, it will be her 15th birthday.
Dinah's mother, Samira, is Moroccan and her father is a Reunion (An overseas province of France). According to her parents, Dinah was bullied in middle school by her former friends, who she had confided in her as gay.
"The girls stopped her in the hallway of the school, knocked her away, called her a bitch, a lesbian, a nerd, a dirty bastard. In March, when she tried to kill herself for the first time, the school told us to go and take her away. Mother Samira was outraged by the school's teachers' "turning a blind eye."
"My daughter was bullied for two years, and we've been doing everything we can to stop them, by driving her from school to her home and then sending death threats through social networks."
Dinah's father added: "Only two students in the class stood by my daughter's side to support her, while the others followed and bullied her. ”
"This is happening more and more on campus now," confirmed Fatimah Aguilar, a secondary school teacher in the procession, who had four children and was carrying one of her daughters with her. "Bullying in schools usually starts small and then slowly expands to get worse, especially with the blessing of social networks."
Dozens of middle school students also came to express their support during the procession, and they are also witnesses to the increasingly common phenomenon of "school bullying".
In an interview with the media, Mulhouse prosecutor Edwige Roux-Morizot said that prosecutors have begun to investigate Dinah's "cause of death" and that after the investigation, it should be clear why Dinah chose to hang himself. She stressed that the current death from "bullying" is only "a possibility".
Wuhan Morning Post intern reporter Liang Xia