NINE-YEAR-OLD GIRL HANGS HERSELF IN HER BEDROOM AFTER BEING BULLIED AT SCHOOL OVER HER WEIGHT - AS PARENTS REVEAL HEARTBREAKING NOTE SHE LEFT THEM

A nine-year-old girl who was bullied for her weight in France has tragically died after she hanged herself in her bedroom.The child, named Sara, was bullied at school and was found dead at her home in Sarreguemines, a commune in Moselle, northeastern France on Saturday.  
The death appears to have been 'a voluntary act by the girl' and she left a note to her parents.
Sara was the victim of repeated bullying over her appearance at school.
Her mother said her primary school classmates had bullied her, calling her overweight, and she had previously mentioned killing herself.
One nine-year-old fellow pupil said the girl had been bullied on her way home.
'In class, she laughed, she was a little cheerful, but sometimes [other children] insulted her,' he said outside the school, where he was with his mother.
'It's not nice,' he added. 'We're in a school to learn, to get a good job, to earn money. It's not a place for bullying - not here nor anywhere else in the world.'
A gang of seven bullied Sara at school, according to one of her closest friends.
They told TF1 that other students called her 'fat', 'ugly' and 'an idiot'.
'She told me every day that she was fed up, that she couldn't take it anymore,' she said.
'I told her it would stop, and it didn't stop'.
The death has shocked France and former prime minister Gabriel Attal on Monday expressed his condolences to the family.
'Bullying is a scourge, a slow poison that erodes self-confidence and can lead to the worst,' the former education minister, who last year founded an association to fight harassment in school, wrote on X.
Regional education authorities said they were 'shaken by this tragic event' while the public prosecutor's office said an investigation was ongoing.
It said it seemed to have been 'a voluntary act by the girl' but did not provide further details.
Police sources said the child had left a letter to her family.
White roses dotted the railings outside the school on Monday morning.
Someone close to the girl's family, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed that the school had been made aware of the bullying.
In a statement released Sunday morning, Sarreguemines Mayor Marc Zingraff expressed his 'deep sadness' and 'immense emotion' following the death.
'In these terribly painful hours, my most sincere thoughts go out to her family, her loved ones, and the entire educational community, all of whom are deeply upset,' he wrote.