A French court has convicted a secondary school teacher on appeal for bullying an 11-year-old student, Evaëlle, who took her own life in June 2019. The Versailles Court of Appeal sentenced the 63-year-old French teacher to a one-year suspended prison term and imposed a permanent ban on teaching — overturning an acquittal handed down at first instance the previous year. Classmates had testified that Evaëlle, already subjected to bullying by peers, was also regularly singled out by the teacher, including an incident in which the teacher asked the entire class to answer the question "Why does Evaëlle feel bullied and excluded?"; Evaëlle's mother welcomed the verdict, saying "the children's voices were heard this time."