Six people have been taken into custody for "online moral harassment" against Mila.

To this is added the count of "death threats" for five of them and "threats of crime" for the sixth.

It is the national pole of fight against hatred online which coordinates the file.

Six people were taken into police custody on Monday as part of an investigation into death threats against Mila after Mila published a new controversial video on Islam in November, it told AFP the Paris prosecutor's office. 

These six people, five men and a woman aged 18 to 35, were taken into police custody in Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Gironde, Haute-Savoie, Bas-Rhin and Bouches- du-Rhône, as part of the investigations carried out by the national center for the fight against online hatred, recently created within the Paris prosecutor's office.

A total of eleven people arrested since February

They were taken into custody for "online moral harassment" and five of them also for "death threats", while the sixth was for her part for "threats of crime".

Five people had already been arrested in February as part of the same investigation.

They are to be tried on June 3 by the Paris Criminal Court for "moral harassment" and, for two of them, "death threats".

Mila had provoked violent reactions, sometimes accompanied by death threats, by publishing in November on the social network TikTok a new video in which she sharply attacked her detractors.

The teenager had shared on Twitter screenshots of the death threats received, some referring to the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty in October 2020 in the Yvelines.

Death threats during a first video

The Vienna public prosecutor's office, which opened an investigation in mid-November, relinquished jurisdiction in early December in favor of the national center for the fight against online hatred.

A high school student in Villefontaine, in Isère, Mila was forced to leave her school after having published in January 2020 a first video that went viral in which she criticized Islam in a virulent way.

Two people were already sentenced last year to prison terms for death threats against the girl.

Others are indicted in the investigation into the death threats of January 2020 and the dissemination of his contact details.