Following the violent attack on a schoolgirl outside her school in Montpellier on 2 April, two more minors have been charged with ‘attempted murder’

The public prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday 24 April that two other minors had been charged with ‘attempted murder’ as part of the investigation into the attack on 13-year-old Samara outside her school in Montpellier.

‘One of them has been placed under judicial supervision’, Montpellier deputy public prosecutor Moune Mercan told AFP, without giving further details. This brings to five the number of minors charged with attempted murder in this case, following the arrest of two boys and a girl aged 14 and 15 on 3 April, the day after the attack on the teenager, who was seriously injured.

The attack took place ‘in the context of a group of teenagers who were in the habit of insulting each other’ on social networks, as the public prosecutor’s office had previously explained.

The girl’s mother had suggested in the media that there was a religious dimension to the violence, claiming that Samara had been called a ‘miscreant’, a claim not confirmed by the public prosecutor’s office at this stage. She also accused the school staff of not having taken sufficient measures to protect her daughter.