The article aims at analysing the role of amateur videos in the communication of information, with regard to the special editions of the international TV news broadcasted the day after the terroristic attack of July 14 th 2016 in Nice. Against a backdrop characterized by a systematic occultation of death, the videos contribute to the celebration of the survivors, by means of their sound dimension. Those “martyrs-images” have a witness value and help exorcise the violent death within media rituals such as news broadcasts.