- In January Mila, a high school girl from Isère, was the subject of death threats and rape after having made virulent remarks on Islam.
- Since this cyberbullying, the investigation has progressed and led to the indictment of three minors.
Last January, the Mila affair had largely crossed the borders of Isère and sparked a wave of reactions and indignation at the national level. Five months after the cyber harassment of this 16-year-old girl, victim of death threats and rape for having made virulent comments on Islam, the judicial investigation has made good progress in Isère.
According to the Vienna Prosecutor's Office, which communicated this Wednesday morning on this case, three minors have been indicted in the investigation into death threats and harassment targeting the schoolgirl. On February 20, a 16-year-old boy from Besançon was arrested. He is suspected of "having been at the origin of the dissemination of personal information relating to the girl," said the prosecution. This minor, who admitted having disseminated the victim's personal information himself, was charged with receiving charges of theft, electronic harassment and use of other people's identification data and placed under judicial supervision.
Death threats sought
The investigation progressed further last week, with the arrest of two other minors, brought on June 10 before the Vienna investigating judge. These 17-year-old teenagers admitted, according to the prosecution, "to have recovered Mila's personal data before transmitting it to the minor in Besançon". Facts which had led in January to the cyber harassment of which had been victim Mila, dropped out of school in the wake of this affair and placed under police protection with her family, because of known risks for her safety. The two young suspects were charged with theft and concealment of theft of computer data and also placed under judicial supervision.
In May, the Grenoble research section also arrested, on a letter rogatory from the Vienna investigating judge, a man accused of being the author of death threats on the girl. Investigations are still underway to identify other perpetrators of the many threats to Mila.
As a reminder, at the end of January, the first investigation into this case, against the young Mila, was closed without follow-up. The investigations then conducted at that time of the head of provocation to racial hatred after his remarks on Islam, had revealed "no element of a nature to characterize this criminal offense", recalls this Wednesday the Vienna Prosecutor's Office.
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