再調査報告書を公表　いじめ受けた中２凍死―北海道旭川市

　北海道旭川市で２０２１年３月、いじめを受けていた中学２年広瀬爽彩さん＝当時（１４）＝が凍死した状態で見つかった問題で、市は１３日、いじめと自殺の因果関係を認めた再調査委員会の報告書の公表版を取りまとめ、市議会で内容を発表した。
　今津寛介市長は「さまざまないじめが心に深い苦痛を与え続けたことが克明に記載されている。命を救えず、心からおわびする」と述べた。
　再調査委は、学校の内外で広瀬さんが受けた行為７項目をいじめと認定。「いじめ被害が存在しなければ、自殺は起こらなかった」と結論付け、市や学校が取るべき再発防止策を提言した。
　公表版は、再調査委が１日に市に提出した報告書から、非公開部分を削除したもの。報告書の提出を受け、市は公表方法や範囲について遺族らと協議していた。（2024/09/13-11:57）

The Asahikawa municipal government made public at an assembly session Friday a report recognizing a causal relationship between bullying and the suicide of a 14-year-old school girl in the northern Japan city in 2021.
   Some parts of the original report submitted by the city's reinvestigation committee for the case on Sept. 1. were deleted form the disclosure version on consent by bereaved relatives of Saaya Hirose, who was found frozen to death in March 2021.
   Asahikawa Mayor Hirosuke Imazu said the committee's report "clearly stated that various forms of bullying continued to cause deep psychological pain." "We sincerely apologize for not being able to save her life."
   The committee recognized seven acts as bullying that Hirose experienced in and outside the school.
   "If there had been no bullying, the suicide would not have occurred," it concluded, proposing measures that the city and schools should take to prevent a recurrence.