Claim murders of Magnanville took place live on Facebook – The World

Le Monde | 14/06/2016 at 14:55 • Updated 06/14/2016 at 5:01 p.m. | By Florian Reynaud and Michael Szadkowski

How the terrorist Larossi Abballa that killed Monday, June 13, a police officer, Jean Baptiste Salvaing, and his girlfriend, Jessica Schneider (names have been given by the national Police with the agreement of families), he was able to communicate instantly and to claim his actions? For a video communication channel accessed his phone. Facebook profile

According to preliminary findings of journalist David Thomson, which were confirmed Tuesday, June 14 by prosecutor François Molins, Larossi Abballa has Live used the Facebook app to broadcast a twelve-minute video from 20 h 52 Monday night, roughly when the policeman succumbed to his wounds outside his home.

As shown by a screenshot conducted by David Thomson, this video was posted on a Facebook profile in the name of “Muhammad Ali”. The journalist, a specialist organization Islamic State and digital activities of jihadist movements, told AFP that “Mohamed Ali” was part of its Facebook subscribers, without he knows personally (or) person ( s) behind this account.

“Long message claims”

in the video broadcast, Larossi Abballa, “very calm and smiling” , a place “a long claim message” that seems to have “wrote earlier” , according to the explanations given by David Thomson on Tuesday.

the reporter described on his Twitter account some horrifying scenes contained in the twelve minutes of direct: “the bomber calls for killing police officers, prison guards, journalists, rappers and cites many names. (…) “was answered positively Adnani Sheikh [spokesman for the IU]” , “Euro will be a graveyard “, he said especially in the video. “ François Molins confirmed Tuesday afternoon, the nature of this information and threats by Larossi Abballa on Live Facebook video spotted by David Thomson.

A canal diffusion “of the Islamic State of contacts”

Behind the name “Facebook Live” is a new feature of the social network most used by the French, available in France since the end of January. It allows all Facebook users on mobile broadcast live on their profile videos filmed with their smartphone (ie that also offers, for example, Periscope).

Using a Facebook Live made it impossible mediation by a third party that could receive the video and post it afterwards on the Facebook account in the name of “Muhammad Ali”. Indeed, the architecture of Facebook Live does not allow lambdas Facebook users to broadcast live images that are not directly filmed with their smartphone.

Larossi Abballa, Video Facebook Live was a how to give a direct and immediate visibility to its actions to the people who were in contact with the Facebook profile “Mohamed Ali”, while the identifier for sure as the author of the images.

in his interview with Agence France-Presse, David Thomson says Larossi Abballa called “to its 160 Facebook followers, particularly his contacts of the Islamic State, to the press to claim his attack, which explains the quick claim by the Islamic State via QAMA agency “ of Magnanville murder.

According to the reporter, ” the video was seen by 98 people before being removed eleven hours after its release, “. after the broadcast of a dozen minutes Live completed, images are indeed transformed into classic video, remaining accessible to contacts Facebook profile in the name of “Muhammad Ali,” which allowed the journalist David Thomson to trace.

Facebook account was then made inaccessible Tuesday, June 14 in the early morning, without knowing if Facebook or others could remove this profile. Contacted Tuesday, teams of social network have not yet responded to requests from the World about this.

Photos also on Twitter

in the media and in online chat spaces (like JV.com), another Facebook profile in the name of Larossi Abballa this time, was also quoted as Monday night. Internet users and the magazine Le Point were able to find the first videos and pictures of the man killed by RAID, since widely disseminated online, which helped to put a face on Tuesday the name of the terrorist.

according to the findings of David Thomson, this account does not all been used in murders. It’s on the Facebook profile in the name of “Muhammad Ali” the killer has published photographs of victims during the evening. Publications that coincide with the dissemination of such images on the social network Twitter. From midnight, the national police urged not “contribute to the spread of malicious Photos» on Twitter by making direct reference to the attack on Magnanville.

prosecutor the Republic François Molins said then that Larossi Abballa had posted “two tweets” for the killings on a Twitter account opened June 8, without specifying the content.

When contacted by Le Monde , Twitter declined to comment on the evidence related to the images of Larossi Abballa and said that the social network “condemned the use of Twitter for advocating terrorism” . Twitter has added more than 125,000 accounts that glorify terrorism, “primarily associated with the Islamic State” have been removed since mid-2015.

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