It is a disturbing fashion, which gradually wins the playgrounds.
In Toulouse, a 5th year student was severely beaten by his classmates while participating in a game imitating the Korean series Squid Game, France 3 Occitanie reported on Friday.
The family has since filed a complaint.
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As in fiction, the facts started with a classic playground game: the 1, 2, 3, sun.
But very quickly, one of the teenagers proposed a new rule, taken from Squid Game: the participant who moves is “
beaten
”.
One of the students then got scared, tried to stop playing, but was taken to task by his classmates.
“
They started chasing him.
He ran away, but one of his friends tripped him up in a corner of the college.
Once on the ground, they all started to hit him with kicks in the stomach and head,
”the victim's mother said indignantly to the local channel.
The latter wished to preserve the anonymity of her son.
The name of the college was also not disclosed.
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The school must assume its responsibilities
"
This surge of violence prompted the management of the establishment to receive all the parents of the participating students, then to carry out prevention in all the classes. But the attacked teenager is still traumatized: “
He still has a stomach ache and has not eaten since the attack. He's not doing well,
”his mother worries. She filed a complaint Tuesday for "
aggravated violence
". “
The school must assume its responsibilities, just like the parents,
” she believes.
The assault on this Toulouse schoolboy does not seem to be an isolated case.
At the beginning of October, a nursery school in Belgium had alerted families on Facebook to this "
unhealthy and dangerous game
", taken from a series whose viewing is supposed to be prohibited for those under the age of 18.
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Asked about the question by BFMTV, Jean-Michel Blanquer wanted to be reassuring: “
It sometimes causes imitations in schoolyards.
The phenomenon has not grown too large, but it still exists.
We are very attentive,
”he assured.
At the same time, the Minister of Education urged parents to be careful: “
All of this requires vigilance from all.
I am speaking to parents in particular.
You have to be very careful.
Children should not abuse screens and [be careful] what they are looking at.
"