Overview
- The Versailles appeals court, which ruled Monday, found the retired French teacher guilty of moral harassment and imposed a one-year suspended prison sentence with a permanent ban from teaching after also finding she harassed another pupil.
- The decision reverses her April 2025 acquittal in Pontoise and prompted tears of relief from the girl's parents.
- Prosecutors had requested an 18‑month suspended sentence during February’s appeal hearings, arguing the teacher crossed the line from discipline to humiliation.
- The case stems from the June 2019 suicide of 11‑year‑old Evaëlle in Herblay after months of peer bullying and a class session where the teacher asked classmates why she felt excluded while the child cried.
- Two former classmates still face juvenile court over alleged harassment, and the investigating judge earlier dropped the involuntary manslaughter line of inquiry.