Maxime Alexandrov, 23, made hoaxes in hidden camera his specialty. He was tried Tuesday in Bordeaux for quality usurpation and violence.
by Florence Moreau (Bordeaux, Correspondence)
A body on the tiled floor, bathed in a pool of blood. In December 2022, believing that he went to an appointment for an adventure without tomorrow in the Bordeaux agglomeration, a 22-year-old was, in fact, faced this horror scene. For fear that the same fatal fate was reserved for him, he fled and warned assistance police without Maxime Alexandrov being able to catch up to tell him that it was a joke. The emotional shock is such that a total incapacity for work (ITT) of fifteen days has been fixed.
The 23 -year -old Bordeaux Youtuber, known by the pseudonym “The threat”, made hoaxes on hidden camera, remake of films and other parodies his specialty. It claims more than 400,000 subscribers on its YouTube channel and even created its monetized platform. But some trapped people consider themselves victims and file a complaint. What was worth Maxime Alexandrov to appear before the Bordeaux Criminal Court on Tuesday January 31 for quality usurpation and violence.
Because before scareing the young man by his macabre reconstruction in an apartment rented to replay a scene from the series “Monster, the story of Jeffrey Dahmer”, Maxime Alexandrov had played the police of the anti-crime COW- boy. In January 2022 in Bordeaux, brassard and apparent handcuffs, he had controlled, even arrested, passers -by accused of drug trafficking, including a factor, who considers herself recognizable today on the video still online.
“It’s to entertain”
Large voice and clear eyes, held studied first in the class, line on the side and imposing signet ring on its left annular, the videographer assures the audience that “scareing” is not his goal. “My professional activity is to make hidden hidden and hidden cameras, he explains. I am looking for content artistically and which gives people smiling. It is to entertain. It went well with the other participants. And we have always respected the law in relation to the vagueness of those who ask for it. “
To distinguish himself from other content, make a name for himself and attract his YouTube subscribers to his monetized platform, however he has another speech. He promises and promotes “hardcore” and “a most violent scene that we have shot”. He says “we”. “It is a form of politeness not to say” I “and give way to the assembly assistants”, he specifies.
“He only searches for buzz, deplores M e chloé Mondon, young crusader’s lawyer on a dating site for homosexuals. He does not realize the scope of this that it does and the impact it can have on trapped people. He describes his approach as an artistic experience. It is lunar. At no time, he is sorry. “
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