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Two 15 and 17-year-old teenagers from the Alpes-Maritimes will be summoned before a children's judge after their participation in a challenge on the social network TikTok suggesting their involvement in a murder, we learned on Saturday from a judicial source.
In April, in the judge's office, these two young girls living in the region of Grasse will have to answer for facts of "false alarm making believe in a disaster", specified Fabienne Atzori, prosecutor of the Republic of Grasse.
An offense for which they incur in theory up to two years in prison.
The challenge they took part in was texting unknown recipients like "Where are you?"
I have the body ”: then, explains the daily
Nice Matin
, which revealed this information, the game consisted in publishing the answers of these recipients on the social network TikTok.
Problem for young girls: "Some recipients have launched the alert, and this has used the means of the gendarmerie to identify the authors" of the texts, explains Fabienne Atzori.
"The summons before a judge will allow things to be put back in their place"
When these facts occurred, at the beginning of the week, the gendarmes of the Alpes-Maritimes were thus brought to intervene, in the middle of the night, at the homes of the young girls, who were using their own mobile phones for this hoax, and were therefore easily identifiable. .
“An alternative to prosecution, such as a citizenship internship, seemed insufficient to us.
The summons before a judge will put things in their place, ”said Fabienne Atzori, specifying that this criminal response could have been more severe with a summons to the children's court.
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