More than a year after her first controversial video, Mila's nightmare is far from over. On January 18, 2020, the then 16-year-old caused a huge outcry on social media because of her very critical and raw view of Islam. Threatened with death and rape, she ended up dropping out of school out of fear for her life: “I was not safe in my facility. If I went back, given the threats received by people from my school, I could have been burned with acid. I could have been hit. I was threatened with being undressed in public and even buried alive ", she confided on the set of Daily a few days later.
In November 2020, after another controversial video, Mila was once again the target of violent threats. In particular, thousands of Internet users have expressed their desire to "make him a Samuel Paty ”, in reference to the beheading of Professor Conflans-Sainte-Honorine a few weeks earlier.
Five suspects arrested for threatening Mila on social networks
On Tuesday February 9, 2021, five people – aged 18 to 29 and scattered throughout France – were taken into police custody. All are suspected of having made death threats against the teenager on social media, facts for which they risk up to three years in prison and 45,000 euros in fines. The same day, Richard Malka was present on the set of C to you. Originally came to promote his new novel The thief of love, the one who is also Mila's lawyer was invited to comment on these arrests. He particularly wished to recall that “For almost a year now, hundreds of death threats have been addressed to Mila and read by her parents ”. Richard Malka says that Mila’s mother takes care of “to select" the most virulent messages, before sending them to the police, to the public prosecutor and to himself.
So that viewers of France 5 can “realize" of the seriousness of the remarks made against the young woman, the lawyer decided to quote a few in front of the cameras. “Dirty bitch, I hope that rots like you end up beheaded like the other”,“ Die, you bastard ”,“ Get raped ”,“I will rape you in your grave"," A day will come when you will get killed for your words my dear, even an unknown history teacher has had his throat cut for caricatures. You know yourself, everyone hates you (including me) and everyone wants your skin, it's only a matter of time”, he listed, apologizing for reading such insults on a television set. “I have, like that, thousands ", says Richard Malka, who considers having “Largely outdated” the stage of 50,000 death threats. “It is good that fear changes sides, that it is on the side of those who commit crimes "Mila’s lawyer finally concluded, referring to those recently taken into custody.
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