Prosecutor’s Office reports third death due to viral challenges on TikTok
The Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, reported this Thursday about a third deathas well as dozens of injured and intoxicated people, by viral challenges circulating on TikTokat the end of a hearing at the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) where an appeal for protection that asks to protect children and adolescents from these threats was discussed.
«A protection has been discussed in favor of our children and adolescents, to which the Public Ministry has adhered (…). “What has happened is an extremely serious event that has fatally injured the lives of three children,” the official said in a broadcast on the state channel VTV, without specifying more details.
🔴 Tarek William Saab reported that the Public Ministry adhered to the appeal for protection in favor of girls, boys and adolescents due to viral challenges on social networks.
🗣️ We have joined because we consider that what happened is an extremely serious event, which has injured… pic.twitter.com/ed66yEMfyb
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The head of the Ombudsman’s Office, Alfredo Ruiz, who also joined the appeal, warned that Those companies that “promote or allow” these “attacks” will be sanctioned against Venezuelan society.
The appeal for protection was introduced on Wednesday by Yuleidi Carrizo, representative of the Bolivarian Movement of Families Aristóbulo Istúriz, who explained that the State is asked to order the withdrawal of the viral challenges on the social network TikTok that “have been affecting dozens of young people in several educational centers.
Maduro asks TikTok to withdraw viral challenges
The Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, asked the police on Tuesday to be alert to the risks that young people run due to viral challenges and called on uniformed personnel to go to educational centers to increase surveillance, after mass poisonings were recorded. in at least five schools in the last two weeks.
Last week, Cabello stated that cases of “chroming” are being investigated, a challenge popularized on networks, especially among teenagers, which consists of inhaling toxic substances from aerosols, deodorants, paints and insecticides.
On Monday, Nicolás Maduro ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) ask the social network TikTok in Latin America to remove videos about viral challenges from your platforms in Venezuelawhich he described as “abusive and criminal,” after reporting on the first two deaths of adolescents, ages 12 and 14, for participating in challenges published on the platform.
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