"Anyone who moves, we beat him up."
The ultra-violent variant of the game “1,2 3 soleil” in Netflix's phenomenon series
Squid Game
- where the one who moves is executed - spills over into the playgrounds.
According to the revelations of France 3 Occitanie, college students from an establishment in the west of Toulouse decided to adapt the rules of this innocent game during a lunch break on Thursday, October 14.
One of the students got scared and decided to quit the game.
His comrades judged that he had moved, they chased him, knocked him down and beat him.
His mother lodged a complaint in a Toulouse police station and the principal of the establishment confirmed to France 3 that "the game has degenerated" and that "disciplinary proceedings have been initiated".
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Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of National Education, has already expressed concern on several occasions about the influence of this series, which is banned for children under 16, and has sent vigilance instructions to heads of establishments.
Closer to Toulouse, the Tarn gendarmes launched an appeal on Facebook indicating that "behaviors inspired by #squidgame [were] observed in schools" and urging parents to educate their children.
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