The act is of a rare violence. A septuagenarian and her granddaughter were victims of an attack on Monday in Bordeaux. A scene filmed in part by an intercom camera and whose images quickly spread on the internet.
Some politicians have put it online on social media, starting with Eric Zemmour, who posted it on Twitter without taking care to blur the faces of the victims. The former presidential candidate finally edited his tweet and deleted the faces in a second version of the video. Not wanting to delete the first version, however, he leaves the original sequence freely accessible, which has accumulated more than a million views.
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At the same time, the video spread rapidly, racking up millions of views across numerous accounts. This Tuesday morning, the uncensored video was widely circulated, starring personalities such as Eric Naulleau or @CerfiaFR’s Twitter account with more than 550,000 subscribers, who viewed the video more than two million times.
Except that the publication and distribution of this video is completely illegal. Article 222-33-3 of the Criminal Code specifies that “disseminating the recording” of an attack is punishable by “five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.” Sanctions that apply to those who initially broadcast the video, but also to those who share it by retweeting it.
On the other hand, the Criminal Code specifies that these sanctions do not apply to the media. But for all that, the press itself may be exposed to the Civil Code.
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If the majority of the media broadcast the blurry version of the video of the attack in Bordeaux, the grandmother or the parents of the attacked girl will thus have the freedom to request the complete removal of the sequence.
Given the massive dissemination of the sequence, completely illegally, the official account of the cybernetic gendarmerie called on Internet users who confronted such images to report them on the Pharos platform. At mid-morning, the National Police announced that its investigators had been arrested.
For its part, Twitter has yet to remove any of this illegal content, despite its vast audience. When asked about it by Tech&Co, the company automatically responded with a “poop” emoji, following owner Elon Musk’s decision to communicate with the media only in this way.
On June 8, the knife attack in a public park in Annecy was also widely publicized on social media. Once again, the cybernetic gendarmerie had recalled that “internet users who disseminate and share videos that show violence against people are exposed to criminal sanctions.”
Source: BFM TV
