A 16-year-old girl, who filed charges against a pair of skinheads for what she said was an Islamophobic attack on August 12, attempted to commit suicide on Monday by jumping from a window in her apartment block, reports FRANCE 24.
According to a police report, the girl was assaulted on August 13 in the troubled town of Trappes, 35 kilometres west of Paris.
Two men with shaved heads approached the Muslim girl with a “sharp object,” ripped off her headscarf, shouted Islamphobic insults and hit her on the shoulder before fleeing by car, a judicial source told French media.
The girl made a first attempt to take her life on August 23 by ingesting a dangerously-high quantity of medicated drugs, police said.
After jumping from a window on the fourth floor of her apartment building on Monday evening she was said to be “seriously injured” but still conscious when taken to hospital by paramedics. She was then transferred to a hospital in Paris during the night. Local authorities described her condition as “worrying”.
Read more of this report from FRANCE 24.