I am so grateful đ Souvenirs de Miss Provence 2021 â¨
Gepostet von April Benayoum – Miss Provence 2020 am Dienstag, 14. September 2021
Less than a year ago, April Benayoum, the then Miss Provence, was attacked on social media for her Israeli-Italian heritage. Since Wednesday September 22, eight people, four men and four women, stand trial for their anti-Semitic tweets. They are originally from Sarthe, Ain, Bouches-du-RhĂ´ne, Bas-Rhin, RhĂ´ne, Val-d’Oise or Seine-Saint-Denis and are aged between 20 and 60, Marianne reports. They are described as socially assimilated, like a chiropodist or a history student, and they all have one thing in common, recalls Muriel Ouaknine-Melki, defence lawyer and president of the European Jewish Organisation (OJE): they are all Muslims. “All eight claim to be Muslims, whether they practise or not.
According to our journalistic colleagues, April Benayoum never mentioned her religion when she gave her speech at the Miss France contest, only her origin. During their interrogation, the accused were asked about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Marianne’s information, some of the accused told investigators that Miss Provence had “touched on a geopolitical issue” by mentioning her father’s origins and was therefore political in some circumstances. Others did not answer at all.
This trial is only about how to evaluate the evidence. ” At the moment, it is a serious insult “, Muriel Ouaknine-Melki tells Marianne, hoping that the charge will be modified into ” incitement to sedition “. The authority in charge of dealing with online hate will also take centre stage, as it has been busy gathering more than 1,000 pages of investigative material for the case.
It all started with a simple sentence by April Benayoum: “I myself have different backgrounds: my mother is Serbian-Croatian and my father is Israeli-Italian.” Some called her a “bitch” and others said, not without pride, “I vote against the Jew”. After the Minister of Citizen Affairs, Marlène Schiappa, reported the incident to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the Brigade for Combating Human Rights Violations (BRDP) took over the investigation. The accused face up to one year in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.