Harassed online, out of school for two weeks, the young Mila now enjoys police protection, said Tuesday the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner. This high school student from Isère has been in the midst of a storm since she launched a rant against Islam on social networks. A controversy now involving the highest of the state.
"Mila and her family are the subject of special vigilance, to protect them, on the part of the national police," said the minister who was questioned in the National Assembly during current affairs in the government (QAG ). The entourage of Christophe Castaner clarified that it was not "close protection but special vigilance on the part of the police".
Physical and psychological care
On Tuesday, on the France Info channel, the adolescent's lawyer, currently threatened with death, had already judged the idea of establishing police protection for a 16-year-old girl "stratospheric".
More than two weeks ago, the sixteen-year-old teenage girl drew the wrath of several users of social networks after making comments critical of Islam. Comments which would follow insults pronounced by a young man whose advances she had refused, according to her.
These words, relayed massively on social networks, sparked a wave of harassment and insults that prevented her from returning to high school. The rectorate of Grenoble, where Mila is from, had then assured that she was "supported" physically and psychologically. However, his lawyer, Richard Malka, assured that his family could not "find an establishment in which his safety would be assured".
Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer also guaranteed to be in contact with the family and assured that he was helping the girl "with a certain discretion".
" I do not regret "
Invited Monday evening of the Daily show (TMC), Mila for her part assured not to "regret" her words, claiming her "right to blasphemy". "It was really my thought," insisted the girl.
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But to add: "I apologize a little bit for the people I could hurt, who practice their religion in peace, and I never wanted to target human beings, I wanted to blaspheme, I wanted to talk about a religion, say what I thought about it, "she said.
