A 14-year-old girl from Evosmos, Thessaloniki, who was severely beaten for a month and a half, is in a deplorable psychological state, still in a state of shock and fear. bullying. As described in “K” about Thanasis Hatsakos, family lawyer: “the girl does not leave the house at all, she only goes to school.”

But the parents are also frightened, who, after the turn of events, decided to sue all those responsible. “Imagine, every time they take the child on the phone break to see what he does, but also to make sure that something else, some new evil, does not happen to him, ”adds Mr. Hatsakos.

It all started when a 14 year old their Last February, he confessed that he had been severely beaten as he left school. from a group of girls. At the same time, a classmate and friend of the girl was beaten, who came to her aid, asking the attacking girls “what are you rushing her, what are you doing.”

First, the parents went to the school to report the incident. But, as the lawyer says: “although they went to school and reported the incident, nothing happened but just a telephone harassment of parents of students who practice violence. as a result of violent attacks continued. Among other things, a group of 10-12 girls pulled a 14-year-old teenager’s hair, even cut it once, then from they put garbage in a bag, constantly mocking her.”

Finally, on 03/21/2023, the mother sent a letter to the school and to the Western Thessaloniki Secondary Education Authority, in which, among other things, she stated the following: “despite my repeated verbal updates, you are indifferent to the systematic acts of bullying to the extent necessary, and the problem gets worse and worse with serious psychological consequences for the child. Please get involved dealing with corresponding attention so that the child begins not to be afraid and want to go to school again.

According to Mr. Hayako, 14-year-old bullying girls attend a high school in Evosmos and a nearby high school in Cordelio. Sometimes they act together in their attacks.

“The 14-year-old suffers from the whole body. she violence because, according to the members of this group, it is a “plant”. She studies well and is very passionate about music,” says Mr. Hatsakosaccording to which, a few days after the mother’s letter, the climax of the seizures came when a 14-year-old teenager was left alone in a local pizzeria.

A girl from the group entered the store to tell her to go out for a while because “they wanted something from her”. Then they all together took her behind the town hall of Evosmos and began to beat her. they hitand some girls video recording incident and then uploaded it to the TikTok platform.

“No action taken”

Parents claim that both the school and secondary education ignored the problem. “Parents of female students from Ribbon they were not informed, the incident was not investigated,” Mr. Hatsakos and emphasizes that “the family is outraged that the issue had to be on the news so they could start asking the parents, along with the high school, how they can help, as well as calling the school child psychologist to support the girl. In other words, with a delay of one and a half months, everything that should have been done initially was done.

In fact, according to the family’s lawyer, the fact that a period of time has passed in which the school has taken no action to investigate the incident and support the 14-year-old is also the reason why the 14-year-old not to mention the escalation of violence , as well as about the second incident, which was filmed, and the video was distributed on the mobile phones of schoolchildren.

After all, as the family’s lawyer mentioned, at the time of the attack, the schoolgirls mocked the victim, saying: “Now what are you going to do? Are you going to tell your mother?” “Indeed, the child did not say anything. The parents saw the video from a third source,” Mr. Hatsakos characteristically says, pointing out that the family had a hard time due to financial constraints to seek a lawyer from the start, while they believed that even with the letter to the school they would make some kind of movement.

“K” has reached out to both schools as well as Western Thessaloniki High School to ask when they were informed of the incidents and what action they took, but the only response she has received so far is that “ The police are investigating the incident.”

The area is “normal” for group bullying.

OUR Leonidas Nathanailidesthe president of the Cordelio-Evosmos Parent Association, in turn, tells K that cases of bullying, in this form, when a group of 10 or more people beat one person, have been occurring in the area for 2-3 years. .

“Usually appointments are “given” on the central square of the district. So far, boys have been the protagonists in incidents. Now we see that the girls are following us. In fact, for some time there was a police cage on the square, which had been parked since noon,” he says.

Mister. Nathanailides believes that bias blaming all these incidents on the parents of violent children is a completely wrong approach. As he mentions, “the families of the area, in turn, live a brutally difficult daily life. In many families parents are unemployed, in many other bio wrestlers. There are many problems, and during the pandemic they have worsened.”

He also notes that even school principals are not solely responsible for this growing problem in the region. Such as explains Mister. Nathanailides: Most schools have child psychologist-“gyrologist” who is taken every day from school to school. How will he understand what is going on in the schools and among the children if he works piecemeal?”