The Guarantor for the protection of personal data "has ordered against Tik Tok the immediate blocking of the use of data of users for whom the age of the registry has not been ascertained with certainty".
This was announced by a note from the Authority, which "has decided to intervene as a matter of urgency following the terrible story of the 10-year-old girl from Palermo".
The Palermo prosecutor's office ordered an autopsy on the body of the 10-year-old girl who died suffocated by a belt tightened around her neck, probably while participating in an absurd "challenge" very popular on the social network Tik-Tok.
The examination of the little girl, taken by her family to the hospital in a vain race - her condition was very serious - will take place tomorrow at the Forensic Medicine Institute of the Polyclinic.
The assessment will be carried out tomorrow to allow the removal of the organs that the parents have decided to donate.
To shed light on what happened in the home of the little girl, found in the bathroom by her father with the robe belt around her neck attached to a radiator, it will be important to analyze her cell phone.
The girl had several profiles on FB and tick-tok and the video of the last moments of her life could have been recorded on the mobile phone which would then have to end up on the Chinese social network as proof of participation in the challenge.
The absurd race, which is called the black-out challenge, rages among the boys who challenge each other who can resist the most by tightening a belt around their throat.
The police will have to determine if anyone has contacted the child to involve her in the crazy game.
Meanwhile, an investigation is being made of unknown persons for instigating suicide.
In addition to the Prosecutor's Office, the Prosecutor's Office for minors is investigating the case.
Today a banner was hung on the balcony of the Perez Calcutta state comprehensive school in via Maqueda in Palermo frequented by the girl.
"Hello, for years we have held your hand, now we will hold you in our hearts" it says.
"Competition is no longer considered in contemporary culture as a problem in itself, we prefer to remove all the destructive aspects that are potentially always inherent in it. We are all in a reality show that requires admirable performances, in a talent in which to earn votes. Inside the cool-loser dichotomy. All participants, accomplices and victims at the same time. Social networks have only multiplied the audience and the boxes to infinity. And with this we deal, even in the extreme outcomes ".
The psychologist and psychotherapist advisor to the order of Palermo Calogero Lo Piccolo says this, commenting on the death of little Antonella for a game on Tik Tok.
"A tragedy like the one that took place in Kalsa, the heart of the historic center of Palermo - he adds - probably leads us to some questions. So what is striking compared to a tragic event such as the accidental death of a 10-year-old girl? inside the house? that everything happens in solitude? that the illusion of protection and safety that a parent or an adult can offer collapses? Probably all this together, and much more. But perhaps it would be useful to reflect on how much the culture of exaltation of competition in which we all find ourselves immersed can act as a fertilizer for subjective risk taking ".
"We chose to say yes to the donation because our daughter would have said 'yes, do it'. She was a generous child. And since we could no longer have her with us, we felt it was right to help other children."
So the parents of the 10-year-old girl who died in Palermo for a challenge on Tik Tok.
Their consent to donate their daughter's organs will save four children in other regions of Italy.
The organ harvesting, which began at the Children's Hospital this morning, ended a few minutes ago.
The liver will be transplanted, which has been split (split in half and intended for two children), the kidneys and the pancreas which will be transplanted in combination with a part of the liver.
The heart and lungs were not deemed suitable, while the parents expressed opposition for the corneas.
"In this moment of great pain - comments the Coordinator of the Regional Transplant Center, Giorgio Battaglia - I express to the family our condolences and our closeness. A few days after the yes to the donation expressed by a mother in the excruciating pain of the loss of her daughter , today we had another example of the great generosity and solidarity of two splendid parents who made it possible to save four other children ".
"We are very tried - says Tania Lazzaro, director of pediatric resuscitation at the Children's Hospital - because in a few days we have experienced two tragedies. For both cases I feel I can say that these couples of parents, after their heroic act, have reviewed their daughters lying not on a death bed but in a bed of life. This is the common link linked to the gift. We are all tried. But I have seen this "light".
