• Initially scheduled for June 3, the trial of the thirteen Internet users prosecuted for having participated in the cyberstalking of Mila has been postponed to June 21.

  • Lawyer Juan Branco, who defends one of the defendants, filed two priority questions of constitutionality (QPC) during the hearing on June 3, justifying the postponement of the trial.

  • If the court rejects the transmission of these QPCs to the Constitutional Council, the trial can be held normally this Monday and until Tuesday.

Back to court for the thirteen internet users suspected of having participated in Mila's cyberstalking. Sent back on June 3, the trial is due to resume this Monday at 9 a.m. "To deliver good justice, you sometimes have to resist the temptation of immediacy", explained the president of the 10th chamber of the Paris judicial tribunal, Michaël Humbert. During this first hearing, the lawyer for one of the defendants, Me Juan Branco, had filed two priority questions of constitutionality (QPC) leading to the postponement of the trial.

Two scenarios are now possible.

Either the court decides to transmit these QPCs to the Court of Cassation and the trial will once again be sent back, or the magistrates decide not to transmit them and the trial can officially start this Monday morning and until Tuesday.

Aged 18 to 35, the thirteen defendants are all prosecuted for “online moral harassment” and ten of them are also appearing for “death threats” or “threat of another crime”.

A "bunkerized" teenager

Already present at the hearing on June 3, Mila, a teenager from Isère targeted by a violent cyberbullying campaign, will attend the debates. Suddenly out of anonymity a little over a year ago after the publication of a video on Instagram in which she criticized Islam, the high school student has become the symbol of a political and legal fight. Claiming her right to blasphemy and refusing to give up social networks, Mila now lives "bunkerized", in the words of her lawyer, Richard Malka. Forced to leave the school where she was studying, she has since been the subject of police protection.

In a book published Thursday, June 16 and entitled

I am the price of your freedom

, the young woman describes the explosion caused by these successive waves of cyberstalking and the dramatic consequences on her daily life as a high school student.

“Yeah, I have a shitty life.

Yes, I spend too many of my evenings crying in my bed while you dance after, ”she describes in her book.

Still active on Twitter or Instagram, Mila is regularly the subject of death or rape threats and digital raids.

"I'm going to make a Samuel Paty"

Digital raids in which the thirteen defendants are suspected of having participated in the fall of 2020. Temporary, student or unemployed, atheists, Muslims or Catholics, these ten men and three women with various profiles have all been placed under judicial supervision in the 'waiting for the trial. During the hearing on June 3, the president of the 10th chamber had reminded each and everyone of the sentences and messages that are worth them today to appear in court.

“I wish you to die in the most excruciating way that can exist […]. I will have the greatest pleasure to lacerate your body with my most beautiful knife ”, thus sent a young woman aged 19. "Mila she will keep going until someone finds her and dies her, that's all she deserves." And all those who defend Mila deserve to die in turn, "wrote a 20-year-old defendant, while another launched to his Twitter followers:" Good Mila, when are you going to shut your mouth? […] Jump off a bridge […]. Tell me where do you live where I'm going to make a Samuel Paty ”.

For these messages that may constitute an offense of online harassment, all defendants face up to two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros.

As for the perpetrators of death or rape threats, they face a three-year prison sentence and a fine of 75,000 euros.

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  • Social networks

  • Threat

  • Islam

  • Justice

  • Twitter

  • Cyber ​​harassment

  • Death threats