Ségolène Royal does not want young Mila, "a teenager who lacks respect", to be "erected as a paragon of freedom of expression". Asked this Sunday about the fate of this young Iséroise, target of insults and threat of death on social networks after having vehemently criticized Islam, the former ambassador of the poles also explained that she would have "absolutely not ”shared the keyword #JeSuisMila to support the high school student.
In her video published a fortnight ago on her Instagram account, Mila had notably declared: “Islam is a religion of hate. The Qur'an is shit […] Your religion is shit, your God, I put a finger in my asshole, thank you goodbye. Since then, the teenager has not set foot in her establishment in Villefontaine. Without a school assignment, she waits for the rectorate of the Grenoble Academy to find a solution.
The case moved to the judicial field with the opening by the Vienna public prosecutor's office of an investigation for “provocation with hatred with regard to a group of people, because of their membership of a race or to a determined religion ”, finally classified without result. Investigators, however, are continuing their investigations to find the perpetrators of the death threats made against the girl, who filed the complaint.
A high school student "maybe still in adolescence crisis"
"There is a freedom to criticize religions, but I refuse to pose the debate on secularism based on the declarations of a 15-year-old girl (Mila is 16, note) because it is not from Behaviors like these that we can seriously ask the question of secularism, "said Ségolène Royal on the set of the France 3 show" Dimanche en politique ".
. @ RoyalSegolene there is a freedom to criticize religions but does not share #JeSuisMila
"I refuse to pose the debate on #laicite based on the statements of a 15-year-old girl considered as the paragon of freedom of expression"
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“Criticizing a religion does not prevent having respect. That does not prevent having education, knowledge, being intelligent about what people say, "continued the former Minister of the Environment. “A teenage girl, who may still be in adolescence, if she had said the same thing about her teacher, her parents, her neighbor, her girlfriend, what would we have said? It would have been said simply: "a little respect" ".
Several personalities very involved in social networks since the start of the Mila affair were quick to react and criticize Ségolène Royal's statements. "No, you're not Mila, Mrs. Ségolène Royal. You have no courage. Your contortions only inform about the direction of the wind, ”tweeted the philosopher Raphaël Enthoven.
"I have always been careful not to publicly criticize Ségolène Royal out of respect for the years spent militant in its wake, but the spectacle it has been offering for the past few weeks is truly distressing," said Amine El-Khatmi, president of Republican Spring.
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Ségolène Royal is not the first policy to spark controversy by reacting to the story of Mila. This week, the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, pleaded an "awkwardness" after equating criticism of religions to "an attack on freedom of conscience".
