Neighboring France: Police arrive at “FIFA” pro player victim of hoax

“Is that funny?” After this professional player, on Wednesday, Correntin “Rocky” Chevri was very upset on Twitter. “FIFA” At his home in Besançon, in neighboring France, he received a surprise visit from the police intervention squad in the middle of the night. “4:30 a.m. I did SWAT. “Ten people landing a shield and an assault rifle at my house,” says a Vitality eSports team member who fell victim to a “swatting” hoax. A man whose identity was hijacked has alerted the police, pretending to have killed his girlfriend. “Someone cut my girlfriend’s throat, I’m armed. , pretending to be ready to shoot everybody,” says Corentin “Rocky” Chevre.

The pro says the police also went to his father’s house and forced entry into his house as he was sleeping early in the morning. When he did not answer, they broke the front door,” he said. “You’re going to be expensive because I hope they don’t find you,” he tells the man at the origin of his misadventure, who doesn’t hesitate to call him a “son of a p***.”

Besancon police pointed out that this type of malicious call is “rather rare”. France reports 3 Bourgogne Franche-Comté. As a reminder, swatting, which takes its name from the American SWAT intervention force, aims to send police to an individual’s home as if it were an emergency following a phone hoax. In the gaming world, it aims to disrupt the live broadcast and arrest the streamer. The chain notes that this is not the first case in France. Bibix is ​​the first known victim of French streaming. In 2015, false whistleblowers, one of whom was sentenced to two years in prison in 2016, believed he had killed his wife. In 2019, it’s Sardocchi’s turn to become a swatting target.