"A nine-year-old girl was found dead in her home in northeastern France this weekend, prosecutors and police sources said, pointing to a likely death by suicide after she was bullied. Former prime minister Gabriel Attal on Monday expressed his condolences to the family, after the girl's body was found on Saturday in the town of Sarreguemines. "Bullying is a scourge, a slow poison that erodes self-confidence and can lead to the worst," the ex-education minister, who last year founded an association to fight harassment in school, wrote on X."
"Regional education authorities said they were "shaken by this tragic event", while the public prosecutor's office said an investigation was ongoing. It said it seemed to have been "a voluntary act by the girl" but did not provide further details. Police sources said the child had left a letter to her family."
"Her mother said her primary school classmates had bullied her, calling her overweight, and she had previously mentioned killing herself, the source added. White roses dotted the railings outside the school on Monday morning. Someone close to the girl's family, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed that the school had been made aware of the bullying."
A nine-year-old girl was found dead at her home in Sarreguemines, northeastern France, in an apparent suicide following sustained bullying. Prosecutors and police indicated the death appeared voluntary and that the child left a letter to her family. The girl's mother said classmates called her overweight and that the girl had previously mentioned killing herself. Former prime minister Gabriel Attal expressed condolences and called bullying a "slow poison" that can erode self-confidence. Regional education authorities said they were shaken and an investigation is ongoing, and white roses were placed outside the school.
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