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Reported Snapchat threats frame accounts of violence in Rouen

Christine Kelly's discussion connects reporting on online incitement with an assault victim's account and residents' concerns about safety.

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1:07Éléonore Pompignan reports Snapchat messages encouraging attacks on people labeled fascists.
3:24A young caller recounts an assault on his group near Rouen's Saint-Romain fair.
5:31The caller says nearby police prompted the attackers to disperse.
12:45Rouen resident Matthieu describes a separate nighttime encounter involving a stranger asking to use his phone.
16:34Gabrielle Cluzel criticizes what she describes as the mayor's silence on social media about recent violence.

Calls for violence circulating on Snapchat are at the center of a discussion about an attack near Rouen's Saint-Romain fair. The segment goes beyond the assault itself, asking how people become targets because of identities others assign to them.

On France's Europe 1 radio station, presenter Christine Kelly speaks with Éléonore Pompignan, a journalist at the news and opinion website Boulevard Voltaire. Pompignan reports that messages encouraged attacks on people labeled fascists. She describes those targeted as Catholics who rejected that political label.

The station's description, citing Boulevard Voltaire's reporting, says about fifteen young men were attacked while heading to the fair on the night of October 31 into November 1. According to that account, several dozen people surrounded them, insulted them over their appearance and presumed identity, and struck them.

An unnamed young caller recounts being attacked with friends. He says police were nearby and that the attackers dispersed after roughly a minute and a half. His testimony gives the program a firsthand account of the violence; Pompignan supplies the reporting about the social-media messages.

The conversation then broadens to everyday safety in Rouen, a city on the Seine in Normandy, northwestern France. A resident named Matthieu describes a separate nighttime encounter in which a stranger approached him asking to use his phone. He says the city's security climate has deteriorated and that he is seriously considering leaving.

Commentator Gabrielle Cluzel closes this part of the discussion by criticizing what she describes as the Rouen mayor's silence on social media about recent violence.

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