Strong excitement at the college Amiral-de-Rigny in Toul, this Friday. Three students asked to speak with the principal of the school. “They indicated that one of their 3e had published on the Snapchat account of the class three beheading videos ”, indicates François Pérain, public prosecutor.
Snapchat is a network, popular with young people, which makes it possible to broadcast images or videos that are supposed to disappear after being viewed.
The principal transmitted the videos to the police services which opened a procedure for “dissemination of the recording of images relating to the commission of intentional attacks on the integrity of the person”.
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The territorial direction of the judicial police, the DTPJ, in Nancy was seized of the investigation. The schoolboy was taken into custody in the early afternoon.
“This 15-year-old minor has already been expelled from two other colleges but since his arrival at Rigny college, he had not stood out,” said the public prosecutor.
He was brought up by his grandfather in Toul, this minor is unknown to child protection and justice systems. According to the prosecutor, “he will probably be presented on Saturday before a magistrate”. “The offense of happy slapping is punishable by a penalty of up to 5 years’ imprisonment.”
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