The Lycée Léonard de Vinci de Villefontaine in the north of Isère, where Mila was enrolled. - ALLILI MOURAD / SIPA

Faced with death threats to which she is subject, Mila will be protected, with her family, by the police, announced this Tuesday the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner. The 16-year-old girl is at the heart of a controversy for having criticized Islam on social networks.

"Mila and her family are the subject of special vigilance, to protect them, from the national police," said the minister, who was questioned in the National Assembly during topical questions in government. The entourage of Christophe Castaner clarified to AFP that it was not “close protection but special vigilance on the part of the police”.

Far from high school and without school assignment

Mila, a 16-year-old student from Isère whose virulent criticism of Islam has been widely reported, has been inundated with threats on social networks. Fifteen days after the publication of her controversial video, followed by a wave of death and rape threats, the high school student has still not returned to her school in Villefontaine, where her attacks have caused outrage among some of the students . She finds herself without a school assignment, pending a solution from the rectorate.

Mila assured Monday on TMC not "regret" his words, claiming his "right to blasphemy". "I absolutely do not regret my words, it was really my thought," said the girl on the set of the program Quotidien. "I apologize a little bit for the people I could hurt, who practice their religion in peace, and I never wanted to target human beings, I wanted to blaspheme, I wanted to talk about a religion, say what I thought about it ”, she however specified.

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