13 year old girl in France struck down because she refused to lower her gaze

Original translation by Gaia with thanks

From This French site:

A 13 year old girl has made a complaint about a violent attack, sayings she was struck by a group of girls at her school in Narbonne because she refused to ” lower her gaze ” .

The event occurred on Tuesday afternoon, said the girl, a pupil in year 5 at the Victor Hugo College, a facility downtown without any particular problems . According to her account, the girl was waiting for a bus with a friend before school to go after school. A group of five girls she did not know arrived on the scene and asked her to “lower her gaze ” .

The girl refused to do so and one of the unknowns grabbed her by the hair and pulled her backwards. She added that she was slapped and pushed before finding her head stuck between the bars of the school gate.

Nobody intervened.

The attack lasted several minutes, during which no one, neither child nor adult, came to her aid. Then a physical education teacher who was returning from a school trip took matters in hand. Her mother was notified and came to fetch her.

The girl has a trauma to the neck, bruises on her face , pain in her neck , shoulder and stomach according to her medical certificate. Her mother filed a complaint for violence in the name of her daughter to the police in Gruissan . The police confirmed that they had received the complaint and that an investigation is underway.”