French justice will today rule on an teacher, who was tried in March for harassing three former students, including Evael, a high school student who committed suicide in 2019 at the age of 11.

On March 11, after two days of hearing, the prosecutor requested an 18 -month prison sentence with suspension and a definitive ban on her profession for the 62 -year -old.

The former professor was in a position of “absolute power” and had a “relatively harsh” treatment of the students, the prosecutor said.

As for Evel, this teacher exposed her, put her in a difficult position and made her cry.

“Evel’s harassment (by the teacher) was the trigger and the catalytic energy for harassment by minors,” the prosecutor said. Two of them will be tried by a juvenile court before the end of the year.

The teacher is being tried for the moral harassment of three students, including Evael. He was acquitted by the category of homicide by negligence.

Contradictory views of her colleagues – denies the categories

Her former colleagues outlined a very contradictory image of this teacher with 30 years of experience: “authoritarian and rigid” on the one hand, “good and helpful” on the other.

According to one of her victims, she had “her preferences and goals”.

In that court she expressed minimal remorse for her professional practice.

Faced with a host of testimonies describing student humiliations- “You are stupid, you will come homeless”, “you cannot be so stupid, you are a brain”- the former professor refused many of the insults that are attributed to her and admitted to her.

“Yes, sometimes I was shouting and saying that,” he admitted, adding that she was “demanding”, “good listener” and determined to “help her students”.

“I did not humiliate Evel,” he said several times, deeply influenced by the fact that he was initially accused of the girl’s death.

“I had to tell her ‘stop crying’, something silly to say,” the teacher explained, referring to the school life in question.

The tragic story of the 13 -year -old girl

The investigation did not make it possible to “identify the exact elements that led to death”, which faced many difficulties, especially in her relationships in the days preceding her suicide, the investigator said.

Her arrival at the Gymnasium in Erble, in the Paris area, was difficult for the teenage girl, who became a scapegoat for her classmates, who insulted her and practiced violence on her.

As early as September 2018, she was facing tensions with her French teacher on the application of a medical protocol for back problems.

During a lesson dedicated to school bullying, the teacher asked the students to reprimand Evel, who then had to apologize.

Evel put on the crying and then the teacher was angry and asked her to answer questions, according to student testimonies.

“She had no intention of causing her problems, but to try to solve this problem with relationships with classmates,” the defendant explained.

But for Evel herself, as she had said to her mother, “it was the worst day of my whole life.”

Evael changed school, where she was better at first, but then encountered difficulties, especially with a classmate.

“She didn’t have the time to work” the harassment she suffered in her previous school, her father said. “He found only one way to escape.”

On June 21, 2019, Evael was hanged by her bed.

The parents denounced both the inaction of the National Education System – against which a criminal prosecution will be prosecuted after compensation – as well as the lack of investigation by the authorities, with the original complaint submitted while Evel was still alive.

“We informed everyone who could as parents,” her mother said.

Evel’s suicide “is a tragedy for the whole institution of education,” the former school principal admitted. At that time, the harassment of a teacher was unthinkable and thus supported the teacher.

In 2022, French law incorporated the crime of bullying.