(AFP) The French government on Thursday launched an investigation after a 14-year-old girl was temporarily left comatose after being beaten outside her school by three other teenagers in the south of France.
The three alleged attackers, including a girl who was at the same school as the victim in the suburbs of the southern city of Montpellier, have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a minor.
The incident comes at a time of heightened tensions around French schools after dozens of messages threatening attacks were sent through an internal messaging system.
The victim, named as Samara, has now come out of her coma but was “seriously wounded” in the attack on Tuesday afternoon outside the Arthur Rimbaud college in the La Mosson-La Paillade district, a low-income suburb with many residents of immigrant origin, prosecutors said.
