“For the prosecution, Dinah’s death is not the result of school harassment”, explained the prosecutor of the Republic of Mulhouse, Edwige Roux-Morizot, during a press conference, before notifying the classification in writing. no further investigation.
The magistrate expressed herself with great caution and sensitivity, seeming to weigh each of her words concerning “the plunge into the intimacy” of this young girl made necessary by the two investigations, to seek the causes of death, and to school harassment.
– Dark side –
After a first suicide attempt in March 2021, Dinah, educated in second class in Mulhouse, was found hanged at the family home of Kingersheim, near Mulhouse, on the night of October 4 to 5, 2021.
Her family had filed a complaint the following month for “harassment”, “manslaughter” or even “incitement to suicide”, for facts which took place between 2019 and 2021, when Dinah was in 4th and 3rd grade. They had accused the college of not reacting to the situation.
“There were indeed certain insults, but to which she responded without difficulty, but above all there was a suffering to leave a group that she formed with a certain number of friends” in 3rd class, explained the prosecutor from Mulhouse.
“There were somewhat heated exchanges between these two groups which made Dinah particularly very unhappy, but no objective element emerged which could be qualified as harassment”, she added.
In addition, the young girl was “not at all insulted because of her sexual orientation” nor of her interbreeding, also underlined the prosecutor.
Completed in April and presented to the family in May, the investigation, “objective, exhaustive, impartial and very complete” according to Ms. Roux-Morizot, with a total of a hundred people heard, made it possible to draw a fairly precise portrait of Dinah , a “brilliant young girl, absolutely not isolated” but also with a dark side, “a complex personality, with a psychic imbalance”.
“She had such a thirst for recognition that it was never enough, she was always unsatisfied,” noted the magistrate.
– Stigmatized college –
Dinah’s family lawyer still has the option of filing an appeal with the public prosecutor or filing a complaint with civil action with an investigating judge.
“Dinah’s family and their counsel take note of this decision without however renouncing to continue their legal fight so that all the light is shed around Dinah’s death”, they reacted in a press release.
For Me Laure Boutron-Marmion, the decision to classify without follow-up is “questionable”, in particular because of the non-performance of “essential investigative acts”, which she requested on Wednesday.
The council also has a completely different reading of the results of the investigation since, according to it, “several pieces of evidence” show facts of harassment and “the absence of reaction from the college to try to take charge of Dinah’s distress “.
Ms. Roux-Morizot also announced that “a soldier who lives at the other end of France” and another resident of Dijon, who had made death threats on social networks targeting Dinah college staff, been identified and will be tried in the criminal court for these facts next March.
The prosecutor also explained that she had chosen to communicate in a rather unusual way, on a classification without follow-up, “insofar as an entire college was stigmatized and the educational team named by name”.
“They lived through hell, were afraid that their loved ones, themselves would be attacked,” said the prosecutor.
