Two suspects were taken into custody in the murder case filmed live on TikTok in Lyon last week. According to the first elements, they knew the victim.
Le Figaro Lyon
The investigation into the murder filmed live on the TikTok social network is progressing. The autopsy carried out on the victim confirmed that the 54-year-old man was indeed the victim of acts of torture. “The victim died as a result of the numerous violence to which she was subjected, some of which could be analyzed as acts of torture and barbarism.“, said the prosecution this Wednesday evening in a press release. Moreover, these medico-legal findingsare compatible with a death that occurred on February 3, 2023, the day the video was released“, he continues.
Sunday morning, the mutilated body of this man was found next to the M7 expressway (ex-A7) in an apartment located on Quai Perrache, in Lyon (2e arrondissement). The Pharos platform, which collects reports of illicit online activities, was alerted on Friday by the social network TikTok to the broadcast of a video depicting a scene of violence involving a man lying on the ground, partially naked and the victim of beatings.
Two men were arrested on Sunday while they were sleeping in the bedroom adjoining the room where the victim’s body was found. The Lyon public prosecutor’s office on Wednesday opened a judicial investigation into the count of murder accompanied by acts of torture and barbarism and requested the placement in pre-trial detention of the two suspects. According to the prosecution,at this stage, it can be confirmed that the defendants and the victim knew each other and frequented the same homeless and marginalized environment at Perrache station“. Investigations are continuing fordetermine the exact circumstances and the motive for the commission of the facts.»