• Where will the influence of

    Squid Game end,

     the Netflix phenomenon series in which broke contestants participate in bloody children's games in the hope of getting rich? 

  • Obviously not in schoolyards, judging by a very viral alert message on Facebook, according to which elementary school students have fun imitating the games of the series ... by hitting the unfortunate losers.

  • Such a warning was relayed by Belgian establishments on October 5.

    For its part, the National Education plans to send "a warning message concerning the possible case of

    Squid Game

    ", as it indicates to

    20 Minutes

    .

Since its launch on Netflix, the South Korean phenomenon

Squid Game has

never ceased to be talked about on social networks and among friends.

But, more unexpectedly, this series in which candidates compete in bloody children's games to win a colossal sum of money would have been invited ... in a schoolyard.

This is what a viral post on social networks affirms: “URGENT TO SHARE QUICKLY.

[Here is a] message from a school to the parents of pupils: "Dear parents, you have surely heard of this

Squid game

series

. […] Characters are brought to play children's games and s' they lose, they are eliminated… They are executed! ”

“Our students therefore have fun playing" 1,2,3 Soleil "style games (as shown in the series) and the loser or loser receives blows… We are very vigilant so that this unhealthy and dangerous game is stopped!

We are counting on your support and collaboration to make your children aware of the consequences that this can have!

Sanctions will be taken against children who continue this game!

», Continues this message.

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This ad was originally published by a school.

More precisely on October 5, on the Facebook page of the “Erquelines center / Béguinage municipal schools”, in Belgium.

With more than 33,000 shares, this viral publication did not take long to be the subject of a report by our colleagues from the RTBF.

We learn in particular, from the mouths of some students of the Erquelinnes school, that the losers of the

Squid Game

version

 of "1,2,3 Soleil" practiced in the establishment find themselves whipped with a cord, and that many children aged 11 to 12 have watched the series (although not recommended for children under 16).

One of the school's teachers also details the measures immediately taken in reaction to this phenomenon: “We brought the children together, we discussed.

We explained to them that it was dangerous, that it should not happen again in a playground, or even at home […] They questioned themselves.

I have seen remorse in some.

I think now they have figured it out.

"

National Education provides a "warning message"

In another RTBF article published later, the director of the Erquellines municipal school recounts how the teachers discovered this phenomenon: “On Monday, the teachers saw one or two students who were crying. They asked what was going on, and there, we were told that the children of sixth grade were playing this game which looks like the one in the series, it is "1,2,3 Soleil", but modified, since the children who were eliminated were whipped. "

Contacted by

20 Minutes

to find out if field lifts report similar games in certain playgrounds in France, the National Education indicates that "an alert message will be sent to the academic directors of the services of the 'National education concerning the possible case of

Squid Game

 '.

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