The time has come for Amandine Petit to take stock. Almost a year ago, the pretty blonde from Normandy was sacred Miss France 2021. She will therefore naturally have to hand her crown to one of the 29 new contenders for the title to succeed her during the ceremony expected on December 11 in her city of Caen. In the meantime, Amandine Petit is invited to take a media tour to take stock of the most beautiful memories of her year as a beauty queen but also of the less good ones. The opportunity to remember that his reign has precisely started with a controversy !
Remember, the day after her victory, Amandine Petit had to publicly react to anti-Semitic attacks suffered throughout the evening his first runner-up April Benayoum. A complex subject for the young woman of 24 who was then helped by the Miss France committee to deliver his first statements. “I will remember it for a long time: my first TV interview, live on BFMTV. The committee warns me that a controversy has erupted around anti-Semitic tweets addressed to April Benayoum and that I will have to respond. Controversy of this magnitude from day one, after a short night’s sleep, is not easy to manage. In a year, the committee never gave me a text to recite, but this time, I was given elements of language, because, let’s be honest, I was a bird that fell from the sky …“, confessed Amandine Petit during an interview for Leisure TV published this Monday, November 29, 2021.
April Benayoum had also been called upon to speak on several occasions. The Miss World candidate with Israeli-Italian origins was also eager to file a complaint and, after investigation, eight internet users were arrested by the police, between 20 and 58 years old. Finally, at the end of the trial which took place on September 22, seven people were eventually convicted to pay fines of 300 to 800 euros.