Two teenagers aged 15 and 17 from the Alpes-Maritimes will be summoned before a juvenile judge after their participation in a challenge on the social network TikTok making believe in their involvement in a murder, we learned Saturday from a judicial source.
Two years in prison incurred in theory
In April, in the judge’s office, these two young girls living in the Grasse region will have to answer for the facts of “False alarm making believe in a disaster”, said Fabienne Atzori, prosecutor of the Republic of Grasse. An offense for which they incur in theory up to two years in prison.
The challenge they took part in was texting to unknown recipients like ” Where are you ? I have the body “ : then, explains the daily nice morning, who revealed this information, the game was to publish the responses of these recipients on the social network TikTok.
Intervention in the homes of young girls
Problem for young girls: “Some recipients have launched the alert, and this has used the means of the gendarmerie to identify the perpetrators” texts, says Atzori.
When these facts occurred, at the beginning of the week, the gendarmes of the Alpes-Maritimes were thus brought to intervene, in the middle of the night, at the homes of the young girls, who were using their own mobile phones for this hoax, and were therefore easily identifiable. .
“An alternative to prosecution, such as a citizenship internship, seemed insufficient to us. The summons before a judge will allow things to be put back in their place ”, said Ms. Atzori, specifying that this criminal response could have been more severe with a summons to the juvenile court.
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