She had never had to deal with justice. Born in 2004, this young woman was placed in police custody in the premises of the Rennes judicial police on Monday June 5. Investigators suspect her of having filmed and then broadcast on social networks the agony of a man seriously injured by several machete blows on May 29 in the Henri-Fréville metro station, in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine). The victim died a few minutes later, despite the attempt at treatment provided by a witness to the scene and then the intervention of the firefighters.
According to the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc, the accused was placed in police custody “under the qualification of dissemination of the image relating to the commission of a willful attack on the integrity of the person” and ” failure to assist a person in peril”.
Video removed from Twitter
On May 29 around 11:30 p.m., a man of Senegalese nationality was struck multiple times with a machete near the Henri-Fréville metro station. He had tried to take refuge in the station. It was when he was dying, clinging to a stair railing, that he was filmed, before collapsing. The video was broadcast on social networks and in particular relayed on Twitter. It took several hours for the social network to remove it.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Rennes to try to shed light on this murder. The use of CCTV cameras should help investigators. The 26-year-old victim had family who lived in the neighborhood.