Real aggression or staging? This is the question that investigators from the Etampes police station are asking after a video has been shared this weekend at least 130,000 times on Twitter after going viral on Snapchat.
The scene takes place near the Jean-Etienne Guettard college in Etampes. "It is not dated," said a source close to the investigation. We see a teenager on the ground taken to task by eight other young people. Hilarious, they kick him then one of the attackers tries a catch catch by dropping on the young man. Behind the camera, we hear laughter then a girl's voice which says: "It's not easy".
Friday evening, on its Twitter account, the national police said: "The investigators of the Pharos platform are mobilized". Pharos (Platform for harmonization, analysis, cross-checking and orientation of reports) allows internet users to report illegal or suspicious content circulating on the web, in particular similar cases of "happy slapping" or "video-aggression".
[YOUR REPORTS] Many of you have reported this video of violence to us (#HappySlapping). Investigators from the #Pharos platform are mobilized.
⛔️ Thank you all for not relaying this content. pic.twitter.com/lXrr7b8V18
"Without the context we cannot know"
"The Etampes police station is well in charge of an investigation," we confirm to the Evry-Courcouronnes prosecution. For the moment we have no victim and no perpetrator. ”No complaints have yet been made.
According to another source close to the investigation, if this video seems to show an attack, "it could also be a staging. There is a lot of laughter, a rough catch, one of the alleged attackers who smiles. And at the end, the attacked adolescent gets up and leaves. It can be a real assault but it can also be false. Without the context we cannot know. This is the subject of our investigation. ”
A second investigation into a video filmed around the Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire high school
On its Twitter account, the national police recalled that "filming an assault is to be an accomplice". And that the penalties incurred, even for simply sharing with one or two clicks this type of video, can go up to 5 years in prison and 75,000 euros fine.
“It's scandalous, fulminates Bernard Laplace, mayor (SE) of Etampes, who intends to take up the matter with his assistant for school affairs, from Monday. We will be particularly vigilant about this kind of intolerable behavior. "
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According to our information, the investigators of the urban security brigade of the local police station are also carrying out investigations into the broadcasting of another tour a little over a week ago around the Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire high school. Another known victimless case.
