The headquarters of the “Figaro” in Paris.

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For the start of the academic year, BFMTV broadcast, Friday, a video of Imane, a veiled student, and her cooking tips at low prices.

Friday, September 11 therefore.

However, the journalist of

Figaro Magazine

, Judith Waintraub, retweeted the video accompanied by the comment "September 11", in reference to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and thus associating veil and attacks.

His message was quickly qualified as "racist", "Islamophobic", "shameful".

For the Minister Delegate for the City Nadia Hai, “everything in the video is only generosity: the smile of this student, the cuisine she shares, the idea of ​​inexpensive recipes…”, and Judith's allusion Waintraub "sad and unworthy".

Everything in this video is only generosity: the smile of this student, the cuisine she shares, the idea of ​​inexpensive recipes ...


But because her name is Imane and she wears a scarf, @jwaintraub makes a sad and outrageous allusion.

https://t.co/ONhNSLwAjV

- Nadia HAI (@ NadiaHAI78) September 11, 2020

Death threats and political support

The journalist from

Figaro Magazine

has also received a lot of support because she has been targeted by death threats on social networks, including one saying: "We are going to kill your mother like 2 brothers on Charlie", in full trial on the attacks January 2015 and the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Several personalities have supported him such as Valérie Pécresse, Xavier Bertrand and even the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin: “whatever disagreements, sometimes profound, that I have with Judith Waintraub, I strongly condemn the death threats that it receives, ”he reacted on Twitter.

Full support for @jwaintraub .. In the face of threats and intimidation there is no room for "but" and relativism ... and above all from a minister.

https://t.co/OUnS9ZPtjc

- Manuel Valls (@manuelvalls) September 13, 2020

Nadia Hai in a second message on Saturday evening, explain continuing to find Judith Waintraub's tweet "shocking and outrageous."

But the death threats of which she is the victim have no place in our Republic.

I condemn them.

Together, let's reject violence, ”she adds.

Former Prime Minister Manuel Valls in turn criticized Nadia Hai's message: “Full support for Judith Waintraub.

Faced with threats and intimidation, there is no room for the + but + and the relativism… and especially on the part of a minister ”.

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