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A boy of only 10 years committed suicide in Naples, Italy, after having participated in a social media “game”.
The Italian city prosecutor’s office is investigating the incident, which occurred while the boy’s parents were asleep.
As published by the Italian newspaper ‘The Messenger’, it was the family itself who gave emergency notice when they did not find him in bed. They searched the house for him and soon made the terrible discovery.
According to local media, the boy jumped off the balcony, But before he sent messages to his relatives saying “I love you”, “I have no more time” ensuring that he was in front of the “man in the hood”.
The first evidence found both on his cell phone and on his computer is that the so-called game is called “Jonathan Galindo.”
It would be a character who dresses as Goofy, with a black hood, who sends a friend request through social networks and begins to incite different challenges.
The parents pointed out to the media that the little boy began to behave strangely in recent days, as if something had him afflicted.
What is Jonathan Galindo about?
“Do you want to play with me?”, This is how the dangerous game begins, through a friend request on Instagram, Facebook or Tik Tok from an account with the face of a man who seems to be disguised as Goofy.
Once the user accepts the message, the nightmare begins. We have to meet a series of challenges with increasing difficulties and that could have led the 11-year-old boy from Naples to jump into the void, because “the man in the hood” had decided so.
‘Jonathan Galindo’ is a well-known phenomenon in the United States, which first reached Europe in Spain and Germany and then landed in Italy. To enter the game, you have to accept the friend request, generally addressed to very young people.
This new phenomenon, reminiscent of others such as the Blue Whale or Momo, which also caused victims.
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