couple files complaint after receiving racist comments on TikTok

A simple photo posted on TikTok plunged Marvin and Margaux into a flood of racist and misogynistic comments. The couple received more than 1,000 hate messages. “We didn’t understand. It was meanness and such serious comments and we had never been confronted with that”Margaux is moved. The couple decided to file a complaint. “It’s easy to hide behind a screen and tell yourself that you’re untouchable”denounces Marvin Pivert, CM player at the Floirac rugby club (Gironde).

Behind these messages are often anonymous accounts, some of which display their proximity to the extreme right. One of them shares photos glorifying Adolf Hitler. These people face up to two years in prison for cyberharassment. “When a case concerns several hundred people, it is extremely complicated to succeed in prosecuting everyone, knowing that they must be questioned and heard”explains Me Julien Brochot, lawyer in criminal law. Contacted, TikTok said it had deleted the reported comments and claimed to prohibit hateful behavior on its platform.

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