Suspected of having cyber-harassed and threatened with death the teenager Mila after her publication of a controversial video on Islam, five new people, arrested on September 28, will be tried in April, announced the Paris prosecutor’s office on Wednesday.
Four women and a man, aged 18 to 38 and from Seine-et-Marne, Ardèche, Yonne and Doubs, were taken into police custody on September 28, the prosecutor’s office said. Paris, confirming information from Parisian. They will be tried on April 11 and 12 for “online moral harassment” and “death threats”.
Ten people already convicted
In July, the Paris Criminal Court already sentenced ten people to suspended sentences of four to six months for “online harassment” and the eleventh, an 18-year-old woman, for “death threats”. A twelfth defendant benefited from a procedural flaw, and the last was released for lack of evidence.
Regarding the five people who will be tried in April, four of them are accused of messages broadcast before the trial, according to a source close to the investigation, while the incriminated message concerning the fifth person would be after the trial.
A “tidal wave of hate”
Mila was the target of a “tidal wave of hatred” after responding in January 2020 to slurs on social networks about her sexual orientation through a vehement video on Islam.
Then aged 16 and a half, she had been forced to leave her high school. She has since lived under police protection. She had attracted a new round of threats after the publication of a second controversial video on November 14, 2020.