Jean-Michel Blanquer, November 7, 2019 in Paris. - Alain JOCARD / AFP

Affected by death threats, Mila will be able to return to school, announced the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer on Thursday. The 16-year-old girl had to leave her high school in Isère after making comments hostile to Islam on social networks, images viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

"The first priority is obviously the protection and schooling of this young girl, this is what we have been working with the family from the start," explained Jean-Michel Blanquer, interviewed by the press in Paris. “We found a solution, with the family. By definition I do not say which one, it is good and in the interest of the girl ”, he continued, without giving more details.

A "serious track"

For her part, Mila's family lawyer, Richard Malka, congratulated AFP that "for the first time in two weeks, there is a very serious track which seems possible". 16-year-old schoolgirl Mila has been the target of numerous death threats after a video posted in mid-January on social networks where she claimed that Islam was "shit" and a "religion of hate", while denying itself to be racist.

She then had to be dropped out of her Villefontaine establishment and has since been the subject of "special vigilance" by the police to guarantee her protection. At the beginning of February, she assured the cameras of the Daily program not to regret her words while apologizing for people "who practice their religion in peace".

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