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Sexual harassment: with lockdown, the resurgence of «fisha» accounts on social media. In the bedroom of the flat in Normandy where she is confined, Samia [names have been changed], 17, tries to stifle her sobs so her mother won't hear her. An ex-boyfriend, «a boy she loved very much», she explains, posted sexually explicit videos of her, taken when she was 15 and 16, on her department's «fisha» accounts at the end of December 2019 – Snapchat accounts or other social media accounts created to «expose» other teenagers. «I got loads of messages afterwards, like “You're a whore, you're an easy girl, you're a slut”.», she recalls.

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