[Cherie]

France has launched an investigation after a 14-year-old school girl was left in a coma after being brutally assaulted by three teenagers in the southern city of Montpellier.

The teen is now out of the medically induced coma but remains “disturbed” and “traumatized”, her mother said.

She alleged that her daughter was repeatedly bullied by some students, possibly over her clothing they deemed “un-Islamic”.

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.

The victim, named as Samara, is now out of her coma but was “seriously wounded” in the attack on Tuesday afternoon outside the Arthur Rimbaud College in Montpellier. The school is in the La Mosson-La Paillade district, a low-income suburb with many residents of immigrant origin, prosecutors said.
One of the accused is a girl from the same school, also 14, who was arrested on Wednesday and admits to having beaten the victim, Montpellier prosecutors said in a statement late on Wednesday. The two other minors arrested are aged 14 and 15.

I think it’s... the fact that [Samara]... is maybe a little more liberated than some students,” she told broadcaster BFMTV.

“Samara wears a bit of make-up. And this young girl [who attacked Samara] wears a veil. All day long, she called her a kouffar, which means miscreant in Arabic. My daughter dresses in European style. All day long there were insults, she was called a kahba, which means c--t in Arabic. It was physically and psychologically unbearable.”


I think it’s... the fact that [Samara]... is maybe a little more liberated than some students,” she told broadcaster BFMTV.

“Samara wears a bit of make-up. And this young girl [who attacked Samara] wears a veil. All day long, she called her a kouffar, which means miscreant in Arabic. My daughter dresses in European style. All day long there were insults, she was called a kahba, which means c--t in Arabic. It was physically and psychologically unbearable.”

The victim’s mother accused this classmate of being the “sponsor” of the attack and claimed that this schoolgirl had been suspended for two days in June 2023, having published a photo of her daughter on social networks calling for her to be raped.

The Telegraph