"Who sows the wind reaps the storm". This is how the general delegate of the French Council for Muslim Worship (CFCM), Abdallah Zekri, reacted to the words of Mila, this French high school girl who had violently criticized Islam in a video posted on Instagram last week. Asked about Sud Radio, Abdallah Zekri added: "Freedom of expression is not the freedom to insult".
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- "She assumes the consequences of what she said"
- "Until my throat is cut?"
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The young 16-year-old woman from Isère has since been the target of death threats and multiple homophobic insults on social networks where her video has not gone unnoticed. Faced with the flood of death threats - there are hundreds of them - and the revelation of her identity and address, the authorities have chosen to temporarily drop Mila from her school.
Schiappa denounces criminal remarks
In turn questioned on the case, the Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlène Schiappa, immediately denounced Zekri's "criminal" remarks. "I find that these are criminal words, they are guilty words, and I fight against the idea that a woman, a girl in this case but whoever is the victim of violence, cyber-harassment , it would be because this person would have looked for it, ”she reacted on France Inter.
On Twitter, the new president of the CFCM, Mohammed Moussaoui, for his part stressed that "nothing can justify death threats against a person".
In her video, Mila had notably declared: “Islam is a religion of hate. The Koran is shit […] Your religion is shit, your God, I put a finger in my asshole, thank you goodbye ”. The young woman explained her words in the columns of Liberation and on a blog close to the far right (Bellicca).
Two open investigations
The public prosecutor's office in Vienne (Isère) has opened two investigations into the case of the young Mila, who had to be out of school after a flood of death threats.
One, "open to the head of provocation to racial hatred", aims "to verify whether the comments made on the video broadcast" by the girl "are likely to cover a criminal qualification or are part of the freedom of expression recognized for everyone ”.
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The other, "open to the death threats, threatens to commit a crime, harassment" in particular, endeavors to find and prosecute the perpetrators of these acts "seriously damaging to the integrity of the adolescent", according to the parquet.
