A 23-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended for death threats against Mila, a young Isère victim of harassment for having criticized Islam on social networks.

The individual had already been convicted in September for threatening young girls on a bus.

A young man was sentenced Thursday in Auch to three years in prison including 18 months suspended, for death threats against Mila, the teenager harassed for having criticized Islam on social networks, has t - we learned from the prosecution.

The 23-year-old man, living under guardianship in a home for disabled adults, had already been sentenced by the court on September 10 to 18 months in prison, 10 of which were suspended for threatening young girls in a bus.

He is also due to appear soon in Tarbes, his birthplace, in a drug case.

Emmanuel Macron had defended the "right to blasphemy"

In January, the young Isère girl Mila published a video that went viral in which she made virulent criticisms of Islam, triggering a surge of threats - which forced her to leave her high school - but also support, up to the most high state level.

Emmanuel Macron had affirmed in an interview with the

Dauphiné liberated

the "right to blasphemy" and to "criticize religions", defending Mila to whom "we owe protection", added the president.

Several investigations in this case

During the summer, the young girl was threatened with death and rape while she was in Malta on a language study trip, Vienna's public prosecutor Audrey Quey said in early September, confirming information from the weekly

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The author of the threats, an Algerian living in France, had been arrested and sentenced to suspended prison by the Maltese justice.

In addition, several people were indicted as part of the investigation into death threats in January and the dissemination of Mila's contact details.