A French teenager
live-streamed a video of her suicide on the popular app
Periscope before she threw herself
under a commuter train in the suburban Egly station, south of Paris.She
also claimed she had been raped by her former boyfriend.
The teenager, whose name was not released, sent a text message to a
friend of her former boyfriend a few hours before she killed herself
Tuesday, NY Post reports.
“In the text message, she mentions violence and a rape that her
companion inflicted on her and claims she is ending her days because of
the harm that the young man had done to her.
The
video I am doing right now is not made to create the buzz but rather to
make people react, to open the minds, and that’s it”. During the
disturbing video , the teenager’s viewers can be seen encouraging her to
do so citing that they were waiting . One individual even stated “It
would be fun”.
On Tuesday, the woman spent more than two hours overall on Periscope,
divided in five live sessions. The last one lasted 29 minutes and
seemed to have been recorded moments before she killed herself.
In her own messages, the woman spoke a lot about her life and her
difficult relationship with her former boyfriend.
The video has been removed from Periscope, but YouTube
users posted what they said were excerpts. The suicide scene itself is
not visible on YouTube.
