On Tuesday afternoon, as an eleven-year-old high school student was on his way home from the Collège les Iris in Villeurbanne, he was mobbed by a classmate.
According to Le Progrès, the scene took place in Rue du 8 mai 1945 at around 3.40 p.m. As the boy was walking towards his house, he saw two girls from his secondary school, who were also 11 years old, approaching him.
One of the two girls is said to have directly attacked the boy verbally.
The boy evaded the girl. The girl immediately pulled a pair of scissors out of her bag and pointed them at him threateningly, then hit him on the head with the scissors.
At this moment, the second girl intervened and placed herself between the two pupils. Once the boy was on the opposite pavement, the girl continued by declaring: “You dirty Christian! You’re all the same, you dog! Is it good to be a dog? Tomorrow I’ll meet you at school”.
As class representative, the boy quickly alerted his teachers at the class council meeting. The school then informed the parents.
On Wednesday morning, the boy’s father went with his son to the police station in Villeurbanne to file a complaint for “violence and public insult based on race, religion or origin”.
For her part, the girl was summoned by the school on Wednesday morning and confessed to the incidents involving the boy. She is also alleged to have attacked two other classmates and must therefore expect to be expelled from school.
https://www.lyonmag.com/article/133546/villeurbanne-un-collegien-insulte-de-sale-chretien