“Today I have hatred. Today I have rage.” This is what Mila said, invited on April 8, 2024, on BFMTV at the microphone of Apolline de Malherbe. Coming to comment on the attack on Samara in Montpellier, the young woman returned to her own case of cyber-harassment, and her placement under police protection, following comments deemed blasphemous on Islam, in 2020.
“I was asked to say it” to Daily
The Mila affair began on January 18, 2020, with a video posted on Instagram. Then aged 16, the young woman criticized Islam after receiving lesbophobic and misogynistic insults. Her words had caused her to receive death threats. A few days later, on February 3, 2020, she went on the set of the show Quotidien, and assured Yann Barthès that she apologized for having been “also vulgar” and to have been able to offend those who “practice their religion in peace”.
This April 8, 2024, Mila assures that she was forced to make a mea culpa. She explains today to Apolline de Malherbe: “I was asked to say it before I went on that set.” And to remember : “You are going to look Yann Barthès straight in the eyes, you are going to say to him word for word more or less ‘I’m sorry’ for the people I might have offended.”
“But I’m not sorry.I have never been sorry anyway“
Four years after the events, Mila added: “But I’m not sorry. (sic), I have never been sorry anyway. I did it again on the networks. I never cared, I started again. I showed precisely that this relentlessness that I had against me, that the threats, the lynching, the fact of having tarnished my image, it produced the opposite effect. Today I have hatred, today I have rage. I never stopped asserting my positions, I developed my free will, my critical mind”