フェイク・フォトで自殺を誘発、2人逮捕

　エジプト。
　女の子にデートの誘いをかけ、そのメールにクラック・プログラムを仕掛けて携帯電話の中のプライベート写真を盗み―デートを断られたというのでその写真を元手にフェイク写真を作り上げ、流布。

　…まあ、どういう写真を作るかはそこそこ想像できるところで。
　これを苦にして女の子が自殺。結構な問題に。

BBC Two arrested in Egypt after teenage girl's suicide sparks outrage 5 Jan 2022

「Two people have been arrested in Egypt after a teenage girl who was allegedly being blackmailed with digitally altered images killed herself.

The sister of Basant Khaled, 17, told the Youm7 news website that fake photos of her had been published when she refused to go on a date with a youth.

After they were seen by her fellow students, Basant became depressed and swallowed a poisonous pill, she said.」

　服毒自殺である。
　切々と母親への無実の訴えメールを出していたそうな。

「"Mum, I hope you understand that I am not this girl. These photos are fake, I swear to God," the letter said.

"Mum, I'm a young girl and I don't deserve what is happening to me. I'm very depressed. I can't have anymore of this. I'm tired. I'm suffocating."」

「Fake images were allegedly created using photographs of Basant stolen from her mobile phone after she clicked on a link sent by the youth she had refused to date, Youm7 quoted the family's lawyer as saying.」

　記事を見れば、父親は警察に訴え出てはいないそうだが―警察としては状況からして積極的に動いて、自殺した少女が名指しにしていた1名を含む2名を逮捕。まあ、さくさく逮捕してさくさく司法に引き渡せばよいのです。