Thirty-six hours after the election of Miss France, some hateful tweets were still online.
On Saturday evening, the first runner-up, Miss Provence, April Benayoun, had been the target of a flood of anti-Semitic insults after having mentioned her Israeli origins.
After the wave of indignation, the Paris prosecutor's office announced that it had opened an investigation on Monday for
"racist insults and incitement to racial hatred"
:
"It is a signal which is sent to their authors, to tell them that it is not trivial to utter this kind of anti-Semitic remarks
, underlined on BFMTV the Minister for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa.
Since they will, I hope, be prosecuted. "
Even Twitter, summoned by the minister to take
“his responsibilities”
, would have to agree to cooperate.
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The brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP) will first have to identify the authors of the incriminated messages.
"Sometimes there are those who put their Instagram profile on their bio, or we can
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