Thibaud Hue 7:49 p.m., September 17, 2021

Threats and insults have been uttered in recent days against students born in 2010, after hate messages posted on social networks.

Europe 1 handed the microphone to two fifth graders and the mother of a young boy who was the victim of this harassment in college.

REPORTING

Jean-Michel Blanquer launched a call for vigilance on Friday against the harassment of young students.

The Minister of Education calls on school leaders to be vigilant, because for several weeks, students born in 2010 have been harassed solely on the basis of their year of birth.

It all

started

with the

Fortnite

video game

, where new players are not welcome.

A wave of hate on social media is now being mocked in schoolyards.

"We talk about it almost every day"

The violence that we have seen relayed on TikTok occurs in some playgrounds.

But the tensions are mainly due to the age difference.

"I don't really want to talk to them because there are some 2010s who are a little too smart. They are rude, they do things just because they entered college", plague a student thus fifth in Europe 1. "Someone said that the 2010s suck and it's not quite like our generation, as things evolve… They're not all going to play the game we played ago ten years is normal, "says another.

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This may seem trivial for these young people, but it sometimes becomes harassment with students victims of remarks, rejection.

"These are hurtful little valves, not very benevolent, a little derogatory," said this mother of a little boy who made his return to college.

"It's sports, it's at the bus stop, at the bottom of the college… The first thing we ask him is what year he is. It works and we talk almost every day . "

TikTok responds by banning the hashtag

"If a large number of children do not attend the platforms, for those who spend time there, it is obvious that their mental and psychological health is in real danger", says the federation of parents of FCPE students.

Nageate Belahcen, its president, expressed her concerns on Europe 1 on Friday.

"We have students who are weakened by confinement and who are in very serious psychological states. We have a lot of feedback from students who are afraid to go to college," she explained.

Faced with indignation, the TikTok platform finally reacted: the social network indeed claims to have deleted all the hashtags that aim to harass sixth-grade students born in 2010.