Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Suicide of a young girl on Periscope: “What will happen could be very shocking” – The World

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In another time, she might have left a letter. Monday, May 10, Oceane, 19, filmed and broadcast live on Periscope his suicide. An original drama on this application of video streams for smartphones. At 16 h 29, she threw herself, phone in hand, in a train RER C station Egly (Essonne). Confirming a report by France Info, the prosecution of Evry said Tuesday it has opened a research investigation of the causes of death, entrusted to the Palaiseau research brigade.

The girl, described as frail psychologically by his family, has posted several videos on the day of his suicide. The first broadcast Monday to 13 hours, lasts about an hour. Under the pseudonym Imanolthecat, Oceane exchange some small talk with users who respond in writing to him, and gives them an appointment in the afternoon for another direct: “It will happen may be very shocking “, she warns, without revealing the nature of the project.

” she jumped live “

the film his suicide, a period of twenty-nine minutes was deleted by Periscope Monday. Only a partial catches, subsequent to the death of the girl, were published by users on YouTube on a black screen, we hear voices, then we see a rescuer remove the object obstructing the phone target revealing the blinding light that floods the station platform of Egly. “She jumped live” writes a spectator trapped by his curiosity.

The first video, she has been removed from Periscope on Tuesday, but copies are always visible on YouTube. It was followed live by around a thousand people, an important audience for this popular application with adolescents and young adults.

Sitting on a red sofa, Oceane is motto of relatively mundane topics and regularly calls his interlocutors to meet in the afternoon. A sentence hammered like a deadly promise, a call for help, obscene teasing chants this sequence: “You’ll see just now. “

” The video I’m going to do is not made to the buzz, it is made to make people react, to open minds she warns. I want the message I want to convey is shared, even if it whatsoever shocking is the goal, not as you type in the provocation, people do not understand. (…) What will happen could be very shocking. If there are people who are minors, do not stay. “

” Sounds like you’re a star “

In this first video, the girl discusses her work home retirement, the death of one of his patients who had marked a psychiatric hospital or his piercings. No real consistency of interventions, interspersed with long moments of silence during which she reads, smoking a cigarette, sometimes smiling, sometimes melancholy, her big black eyes planted in his laptop screen, internet users posts: ” too good the girl “; “I think we share a performance there”; “Vazy I leave, it’s too mystical for me”; “It amuses me me …”

-. “Looks like you’re a star” , wrote a user

– “Why I would be a star? “

A long sequence of then shows up to get his mail, always filming, calling to witness the surfers of his final hours, only to know the end, in an unprecedented way to reality custom. Noting that the envelope she just recover in his mailbox was ripped open and emptied of its contents – visibly makeup ordered on the Internet – she annoys, talks about his factor and techniques to make the eyebrows. It is hard to guess that she has programmed his suicide two hours later.

“I try to style I’m fine , but actually I can not do “, she slips after returning lounge. Certain users are more psychologists than others, worried about his melancholy. “I did not say I was going to commit suicide, stop! “, reacts it. “But I will not jump nan balcony, rooo. I am on the ground floor, you want me to jump from what? “, she loose, laughing. “I’ll talk to someone , it gets suddenly worse. You’ll see just now, this is related to someone, but I can not tell you say more. “

” Violence and rape “

According to comments posted by users claiming to have seen the last video, the girl reportedly accused , before throwing himself under the train, her ex-boyfriend of raping her and having broadcast images of the attack on Snapchat. This video was not on Tuesday night at the disposal of investigators, said the prosecutor in Evry, Eric Lallement, at a press conference.

The magistrate, however, that the girl had sent, in the hours before his suicide, “SMS to a young man, a friend of the companion with whom she maintained a loving relationship” . She “evokes violence and rape his companion had done to her and said to end his life because of the evil that he had done it , added Eric Lallement. The hearing of that person is being “, has he said, adding that the investigation would be ” reoriented “ if the acts of violence and rape were proven

the videos Periscope. – which claims more than ten million users worldwide – have proved controversial in several countries. In April, two teenagers were indicted for beating, live on the application, a drunken young man coming out of a nightclub in Bordeaux. “We do not comment on individual accounts for reasons of privacy and security ‘, responded a spokesman for Twitter, which bought Periscope in 2015, simply stating that the videos the girl had been flagged and removed.

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