French justice sentenced the two teenagers to 10 years in prison for Alisha’s death in March 2021a classmate who has been bullied, in a case that shocked the public in the country because of its cruelty.

The Pontoise juvenile court, located northwest of Paris, imposed that sentence on Thursday on the defendants, a 16-year-old man and a woman, for the “murder” of the minor and not for “murder”, considering that premeditation cannot be verified. In any case, the prosecution announced that it would appeal the decision.

The family protested the proposal. “It is not normal (…) They can be released from prison in 10 years. They killed my son “the victim’s mother cried on Thursday.

The case began in March 2021. Alisha, a 14 -year -old girl, died after the two defendants, whose names were not released because they were minors, They beat him and threw him into the River Seine.

The man and woman, in preventive detention for one year, they met Alisha in September 2020, at the beginning of the course at a vocational high school in Argenteuil (northwest of Paris).

The three quickly became friends. However, their relationship deteriorates, between romances and “trivialities” of youth, the Pontoise prosecutor then explained.

From then on, according to the French press rebuilt, he started a stage of intense bullying by two young people against the victim. In February 2021, for example, some photos of Alisha in underwear appeared on the Snapchat social network after her cell phone was hacked.

Add to this the quarrel between the two teenagers and the child’s anger over the insult to his late father.

“No expression of panic”

According to the prosecution, on the day of his death, the victim met a classmate under the columns of a viaduct on the A15 motorway, on a road certainly uninhabited, near the river Seine.

A few minutes later, the accused child approached and punched Alisha in the face. He pulled her hair and threw her to the ground, he explained. Next, the two accused minors they grabbed the victim and threw him into the Seine with the aim of “removing traces of the violence they committed,” the prosecution added.

At home, the young man explained, his clothes full of blood, what had happened to his mother, who called the police.

Both defendants, who were married at the time, “They don’t show any expression of fear”, according to research. That day, after changing clothes, they went to Paris to eat and visit a friend, who was not even told what had happened that afternoon.

That was revealed at autopsy cause of death is drowning. The bruises, though important, did not cause his death. In conclusion, Alisha was still alive when she was thrown into the Seine.

This crime shocked the country and released bullying on social media.

According to the Francetvinfo site, Alisha’s mother reported harassment of her son at school. Management advised him to formalize the complaint and they plan to hold a disciplinary council. The girl died before he could carry it out.

At the time, nearly 2,000 people marched in his memory the day after the murder was discovered. According to the mother, Alisha was “very serious about school” and he dreamed of becoming an accountant.

With information from the AFP