The 15-year-old pupil had replied with ‘Allah’ to an anonymous person he was chatting to on Instagram after the latter had asked him to ‘find a dog’s name that starts with A’. Three suspects were taken into police custody on Tuesday.
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It all started when the student, who was chatting with a stranger ‘by private message’ on the social network Instagram, was asked to ‘find a dog’s name starting with A’, the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office told Le Figaro, confirming a Sud Ouest report. Except that the teenager had replied with ‘Allah’. An insult that led to a violent reaction from his interlocutor.
After this outrageous word, the teenager became the target of numerous death threats and insults.
The pupil was very disturbed and had to change schools. Investigators examined the contents of his mobile phone and contacted Instagram’s general management at the request of the public prosecutor’s office. Checks of the app led to the alleged authors of the messages. The investigation is focussed on three young people aged 13, 14 and 17. They were arrested on Tuesday February 18 at their parents’ home near Gradignan and taken into police custody at the central police station.
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Sud-Ouest / Gradignan (33) : après avoir prénommé un chien « Allah », un lycéen de 15 ans menacé de mort sur les réseaux sociaux et contraint de changer d’établissement ; trois ados interpellés – Fdesouche