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Death threats against Mila: six new people in custody

2021-03-23T07:37:31.717Z


These death threats are linked to the publication by the young woman, in November, of a new controversial video on Islam.


They are five men and one woman, aged 18 to 35.

Six people were taken into police custody on Monday in the investigation into the death threats made against Mila after the publication of a new video on social networks in November, the Paris prosecutor's office said.

These six people were placed in police custody in Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Gironde, Haute-Savoie, Bas-Rhin and Bouches-du-Rhône, as part of the investigations carried out by the cluster national anti-hate campaign, recently created within the Paris prosecutor's office.

They were taken into police custody for “online moral harassment” and five of them also for “death threats”, while the sixth was for “threats of crime”.

A video on TikTok

Five people had already been arrested in February as part of the same investigation.

They are to be tried on June 3 by the Paris Criminal Court for “moral harassment” and, for two of them, “death threats”.

Mila had provoked violent reactions, sometimes accompanied by death threats, by publishing in November on the social network TikTok a new video in which she sharply attacked her detractors.

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The teenager had shared on Twitter screenshots of the death threats received, some referring to the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty in October 2020 in the Yvelines.

The Vienna prosecutor's office (Isère), which opened an investigation in mid-November, relinquished jurisdiction in early December in favor of the national center for the fight against online hatred.

A high school student in Villefontaine (Isère), Mila was forced to leave her school after having published in January 2020 a first video that went viral in which she was vehemently critical of Islam.

Two people were already sentenced last year to prison terms for death threats against the girl.

Others are indicted in the investigation into the death threats of January 2020 and the dissemination of his contact details.

Source: leparis

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