ROME: Italian police on Thursday accused a Sicilian woman of “inciting suicide” for an asphyxiation video she posted on TikTok, a week after a child accidentally died in a so-called blackout challenge.
The video depicts a challenge between the woman and a man “in which both wrapped their faces, including nostrils and mouth, with transparent adhesive tape, so that they could not breathe”, police said in a statement, adding that the video had been taken down. Italy’s privacy watchdog temporarily blocked TikTok access for users whose age could not be proved definitively.
The woman who posted the video had published numerous other similar challenges, “which allowed her to gain popularity and the attention of 731,000 followers of different ages”.
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