Jail for school bullies under new French law

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France's parliament recently voted to make bullying at school punishable by up to three years in jail.

The proposals, which had the support of Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer and were backed by President Emmanuel Macron's ruling coalition and the right-wing Republicans party, sailed through the lower house National Assembly by 69 votes.

The draft measure will now go to the upper house Senate and is expected to be definitively adopted in February."We will never accept the lives of our children being shattered," he said during the parliamentary debate, calling the draft law"a way of enforcing the values of the republic." In cases that involved the victim committing suicide, or attempting to, the punishment could be up to 10 years in prison.Several bullying cases that have ended in tragedy have made headlines in France this year, including the suicide of a 14-year-old girl in the eastern Alsace region in October who was harassed after she confessed to classmates that she was gay.She had suffered severe bullying from fellow pupils after photos of her in her underwear were stolen from her phone.

 

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