Journalist and producer Nadiya Lazzouni threatened with death in racist letter

"Keep (sic) your rag (in reference to the scarf which door, editor's note) we will aim better, cheeky little one.

It will fill your brain with shit.

These are the words and threats, among others, that were addressed, in an anonymous letter, to journalist and producer Nadiya Lazzouni.

This Thursday, she posted on her Twitter and Instagram accounts the photos of a racist handwritten letter, which she received, in which she is threatened with death.

Speaking of "bullet in the neck" "Islamist whores", the anonymous author promises to "visit the neighborhoods of non-France".

Through my work and my public speaking, I have always tried to spread a message of hope and to ignore this deleterious climate.

Can I still walk with blinders on?

Will you take action against these death threats @GDarmanin @MarleneSchiappa @EmmanuelMacron?

pic.twitter.com/BZdbDTf7lh

- Nadiya Lazzouni (@nadiyalazzouni) April 8, 2021

Nadiya Lazzouni accompanied these photos with a message where she wanted to challenge Gerald Darmanin, Emmanuel Macron and Marlène Schiappa.

“Through my work and my public speaking, I have always tried to spread a message of hope and to ignore this deleterious climate.

Can I still walk with blinders on?

Are you going to act on these death threats?

She asks.

Marlène Schiappa answers him

In the evening, the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior of France, in charge of Citizenship, responded to him on Twitter, where his call for help was shared nearly 2,000 times.

"No controversy can justify these insults and threats which are more sexist and racist!"

I strongly condemn them.

If you wish to file a complaint, the courts will be able to take it up, ”suggests Marlène Schiappa.

While waiting to know if Nadiya Lazzouni was going to initiate legal proceedings, the one who took part in the film Banlieusards by Kery James, received thousands of messages of support.

The journalist Rokhaya Diallo, who also lodged a complaint in December for racist insults, brings "all [my] support, hoping that the answers will be up to the gravity of the facts".

We can read the message from Nicolas Cadène, rapporteur for the Observatory of Secularism, which will disappear in its current form, which condemns these threats.

"Total support in the face of these unbearable and intolerable threats, which must be condemned"

,

he reacted to the publication of Nadiya Lazzouni.

READ ALSO>

Why is the Secularism Observatory sidelined?

Morning essentials newsletter

A tour of the news to start the day

Subscribe to the newsletterAll newsletters

Nadiya Lazzouni, creator of the Speak up channel, became known to the general public two years ago when she debated on television sets the bill to ban the wearing of the hijab to accompanying mothers during school trips.

2 years ago, I debated a bill to ban the wearing of the #hijab to accompanying mothers during school trips.

New attempt to want to sacrifice Republican principles on the altar of political opportunism 📽: https://t.co/oCPwi34ZNa pic.twitter.com/M2whdTuTp2

- Nadiya Lazzouni (@nadiyalazzouni) April 1, 2021

Feminist, entrepreneur and defender of secularism, she was also, in September 2020, honored in Caen when a street sign in her name was inaugurated.

A first for a veiled woman.