She had never had to deal with the law. Born in 2004, this young woman was placed in custody in the premises of the judicial police of Rennes Monday, June 5. Investigators suspect her of having filmed and then broadcast on social networks the agony of a man seriously wounded 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 of care provided by a witness of the scene and the intervention of the firefighters.

According to the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc, the defendant was placed in police custody "under the qualification of dissemination of the image relating to the commission of a voluntary attack on the integrity of the person" and "non-assistance to person in danger".

Video removed from Twitter

On May 29 at around 23:30 p.m., a Senegalese man was hit multiple machete blows near the Henri-Fréville metro station. He had tried to take refuge in the station. It was at the moment when he was dying, clinging to a banister of stairs, that he had been filmed, before collapsing. The video was broadcast on social networks and 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 relatives who resided in the neighbourhood.

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