After the tragic disappearance of the YouTuber Mava Chou on December 22, justice is seized of the case. The Epinal prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “moral harassment leading to suicide”.
Since the tragic death of influencer Mava Chou at the age of 32, on Wednesday, December 22, many voices have been raised to denounce the “pack harassment” of which this mother of four children had been a victim on social networks for two years. A violent and constant harassment which had pushed Maëva Frossard, her real name, to file a complaint five times since May 2020 according to Maître Stéphane Giuranna, the young woman’s lawyer. A new complaint was even filed on the day of his death. “for moral harassment and provocation to suicide”. A complaint that targeted in particular the ex-husband of the disappeared, Adrien Czajczynski, also YouTuber.
A survey for “moral harassment having led to suicide”
Several days after the death of Mava Chou, justice is now seized of the case. According to information from Parisian, the public prosecutor’s office in Épinal, in the Vosges, has opened two investigations to shed light on this tragedy. An initial investigation was automatically opened to determine the causes of Maëva Frossard’s death and the conditions under which this death occurred. A classic procedure in the event of a suspicious disappearance. But according to sources familiar with the matter, the prosecution also opened a second investigation on Wednesday 22 December to shed light on a context of “moral harassment having led to suicide”. The investigations were entrusted to the gendarmes of the research brigade of the Vosges de Remiremont commune, report our colleagues.
A deep discomfort for two years
The mission of the gendarmerie isidentify internet users who could have encouraged – via private messages, videos, comments, tweets … – Maëva Frossard to end her life. Followed by more than 72,000 subscribers on Instagram and more than 143,000 fans on her Youtube channel, Mava Chou regularly denounced the harassment she suffered since her conflictual separation from her ex-husband. Lately, the young woman did not hide on her social networks that she was not in great shape. In one of his last vlogs posted on youtube, she confided in fact her discomfort, revealing that she had trouble keeping her head above water : “I’m not coming. I can’t. All I know is that it’s going to be hectic, as it has been for two years … And I’m really trying to stay there, at the level of the water, I try to keep my head out of the water, and sometimes I actually sink. “