"Facebook blocked me from broadcasting videos until 8 September. Now it's your turn": this is how
Alain Cocq
himself
, an incurable patient who announced yesterday that he wants to suspend nutrition and drugs and broadcast his death live, announces on his profile the decision of the social network.
The 57-year-old Frenchman, suffering from a very rare incurable degenerative disease, had announced in the night live on Facebook that he had stopped treatment, nutrition and hydration to allow himself to die.
"The road to liberation is beginning and, believe me, I'm happy," Cocq said on his Fb account shortly after midnight.
"I know the next few days are going to be tough, but I've made my decision and I'm calm," he added.
After the interruption of the video he wrote: "Be sure to let people know what you think of Facebook and its methods of unjust discrimination and obstacle to freedom of expression, - Cocq urges his supporters who continue to support his battle - a right which is however inalienable to any French and European citizen ".
"Call on your French and European deputies, your senators, the government, the Presidency of the Republic - he adds - to protest against the violation of this fundamental right by Facebook, so that it ceases immediately".
Cocq had asked French President Emmanuel Macron to undergo euthanasia, in derogation from the end of life law in force in the country.
The drastic decision after the denial, motivated by the impossibility of acting against the law.
A spokesperson for the popular social media said that "while respecting his decision to draw attention to this complex issue, based on expert advice, we have taken steps to prevent live streaming on Alain's account as
our rules do not allow to show suicide attempts
".
On his profile, Cocq promises that within 24 hours he will find another way to publish the images, and his supporters offer suggestions such as joining other platforms.
"The Cocq law will be implemented, I'm sure," wrote one of its supporters, who said he was convinced that his action will allow for a modification of the 2016 Claeys-Léonetti law that authorizes deep sedation but only for people with a fatal prognosis short term.