A 14-year-old girl was severely wounded and left in a coma after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers over what, her mother suggested, could have been down to un-Islamic behaviour.
The French government has launched an investigation over the attack in the southern city of Montpelier, which has caused political uproar across the country.
It came days after the head teacher of a Parisian school resigned following death threats after she asked a student to remove her Muslim veil, sparking widespread outrage.
From Europe 1
“You must be discreet”: in Vaulx-en-Velin, religious pressure is felt on young women
Three days after the attack on Samara in Montpellier, the question of religious pressure at school arises. The 14-year-old girl had been harassed for several months by one of her classmates, who notably treated her as an unbeliever. In Vaulx-en-Velin, near Lyon, some students confide to Europe 1 that this pressure is also felt.
The attack on Samara, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, shocks France. The young girl was attacked when leaving her Montpellier establishment at the beginning of the week. The attack was allegedly orchestrated by one of her classmates, who has been harassing the teenager for several months, not hesitating to insult her as a bitch and a kouffar (disbeliever in Arabic, editor’s note).
“Samara dresses in the West,” the victim’s mother told journalists , before adding that the suspect “wears the veil.”
