Maxime Alexandrov, a youtuber known as La Menace, was finally released this Friday by the Bordeaux Criminal Court for “violence” and “identity theft”. If justice recognizes the defective conduct of the cameraman, it has not identified an “intentional element” in these files.
The deputy prosecutor had demanded three months of conditional prison, a fine of 1,300 euros and a citizenship course. Neither Maxime Alexandrov nor his lawyer were present at the time of the verdict.
The young man -23 years old and 422,000 subscribers on YouTube- has made a name for himself with his hidden cameras, called “pranks” in English and described as “hardcore” in his case. Far from the cute trappings of television, his videos assume provocation, even sometimes aggressiveness towards his victims.
fake crime scene
In this case, the cameraman was tried for two separate cases. The first concerns a video still online on his website where he tricks his victims with a fake murder scene, inspired by the Netflix series about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
Last December, Maxime Alexandrov lured a young man via a dating app to an apartment where a fake body lay on the floor in a bloodbath. The scene is shocking and ultra realistic. Shocked, the trapped will run away and will not be caught by the trapper. Traumatized, he will be treated with a total disability for work (ITT) for fifteen days.
play with fear
During his trial, on January 31, “The Threat” did not try to escape. He didn’t try to apologize either. “He had no conscience,” laments Chloé Mondon, who describes a man “who plays with fear.”
Often violent in his videos, where he plays the police, the military or the mafia, Maxime Alexandrov seems to cultivate a balance of power with those he catches. “He is what he plays,” insists Me Chloé Mondon as the videographer appears before the audience “leather jacket, hair slicked back.”
The young man had defended himself against any malice, claiming humor and entertainment and remembering that the faces of the unintentional victims were systematically blurred.
“In his videos, he is so big that he cannot go through something serious,” Me Pierre-Marie Bonneau explained at the beginning of the month to the World (The lawyer did not respond to Tech&Co’s questions because he had not obtained his client’s agreement.)
In the same trial, Maxime Alexandrov was also accused of “quality usurpation” for having disguised himself as a policeman and having “arrested” certain passers-by.
Source: BFM TV
