“6 months is not enough.”

A TikTok prankster is dealing with some critical penalties for his actions after being handed down a jail sentence for a prank through which he stabbed strangers with a syringe.

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Amine Mojito, recognized on-line as Ilan M, was arrested in June after sharing video clips through which he snuck up on random individuals exterior and caught them with what was reportedly an empty syringe.

Mojito himself was carrying a masks through the “prank” whereas his cameraperson filmed discreetly from a distance. The latter can repeatedly be heard laughing quietly as Mojito’s victims reacted, usually in worry or anger, earlier than Mojito ran away.

A wave of injection pranks

According to French newspaper Libération, the “pranks” have been going down at a time when there had been an enormous uptick in random injection assaults particularly concentrating on girls, together with one night time that concerned 145 studies and 12 arrests.

Mojito claimed that he was unaware of those occasions and was merely “imitating what I saw on the Internet, in Spain, in Portugal.”

“I didn’t think it could hurt people,” the 27-year-old stated. “That was my mistake, I didn’t think about others, I thought about myself.”

That wasn’t sufficient to let him off the hook. On Oct. 3, 2025, Mojito was sentenced to 12 months in jail for “violence with a weapon that did not result in incapacity for work,” six of that are suspended. He’ll even be fined €1,500 and prohibited from proudly owning or carrying a weapon for 3 years.

The syringe prank backlash continues

Although Mojito’s legal professionals expressed satisfaction with the sentence, the prosecution had initially requested that he obtain 15 months in prison below digital monitoring, with 5 months suspended. Some members of the general public nonetheless don’t really feel that the sentence he acquired is robust sufficient.

“The gesture is revolting, even with an empty syringe,” one X consumer wrote. “The risk of spreading this kind of video is that crazies will imitate it with harmful substances. 6 months is not enough.”

“Even if it was a “prank,” I think about that among the individuals who have been tricked will need to have lived in terror on the considered having been really bitten and contaminated by one thing,” stated one other.

“Stupid shit like this is enabled by platforms that monetize this behavior,” yet one more claimed.

Doing dumb stuff for clout isn’t new to the social media age, however it’s actually exacerbated by it. Where individuals used to tug harmful pranks or do silly challenges to impress their associates, now they’ll use it to demand the eye of tons of web strangers—and sure, even monetize it in lots of situations. 

And incidents through which pranksters go to jail, get shot, and even get themselves or another person killed don’t appear to be doing a lot to curtail one of these content material. After all, it nonetheless will get views.

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