A petition has even been launched to support Mila. - Twitter screenshot

Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Marlène Schiappa, qualified on Tuesday as "criminal" the declarations of the delegate general of the French Council of Muslim worship (CFCM), Abdallah Zekri, against the young Mila, a high school student who had made comments hostile to Islam in a video.

The head of the representative institution of mosques, while saying "against" the fact that this teenager from Isère was threatened with death on social networks, said Friday: "Who sows the wind harvests the storm".

"She looked for him, she assumes"

"She looked for him, she assumes. The words she made, the insults she made, I cannot accept, "he said on Sud Radio.

"I find that these are criminal words, these are guilty words, and I am fighting against the idea that a woman, a girl in this case but whoever is the victim of violence, cyber harassment, what would be because this person would have looked for it, reacted Marlène Schiappa Tuesday on France Inter.

“Indulging in cyber-harassment in packs” constitutes “an offense”

These words are "unworthy of an official, who is an opinion leader and who has a voice in the public debate", she continued, recalling that "indulging in cyber harassment in packs" constitutes "a offense".

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Nothing can justify death threats against a person regardless of the seriousness of the comments made. Justice must pronounce the sanctions provided for by law if there is provocation and incitement to hatred.

- Mohammed Moussaoui (@PresidentUmf) January 24, 2020

In a message posted on Twitter after the words of Abdallah Zekri, the new president of the CFCM, Mohammed Moussaoui, for his part stressed that "nothing can justify death threats against a person".

"It is the justice which must pronounce the sanctions provided for by law if there is provocation and incitement to hatred," he added.

CFCM president updates

On Tuesday Mohammed Moussaoui published a press release in the form of a "clarification" on "the controversy raised by the subject" of Abdallah Zekri.

"The expression" she looked for it ", used by Abdallah Zekri, and taken out of its context, to point out the girl's responsibility for the words she said, was not appropriate", writes the president of CFCM.

"Since then, Abdallah Zekri has explained himself on this expression and has reaffirmed (...) (that) in no case had he endorsed the threats or insults" which target him, he continued.

He also defended himself: "accusing this man, himself regularly subjected to death threats and insults, of being involved in extremism, is unjust and unacceptable".

Two investigations opened by the Vienna public prosecutor's office

The public prosecutor's office in Vienne (Isère) has opened two investigations into the case of the young Mila, who had to be out of school after a flood of death threats. One is for death threats, the other is to determine whether the adolescent's remarks are “provocation to racial hatred”.

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