Two Internet users, sentenced to first instance to four and six months suspended imprisonment for cyberharceled the young Mila, were re -joined on Tuesday. They were sentenced to two years and a year of suspended prison.
The Paris Court of Appeal has increased the sentences inflicted on two Internet users, which has been reached for participating in the cyberbill of the young Mila after her controversial video on Islam, by condemning them on Tuesday January 31 to two years and a year suspended imprisonment. Three years ago, the girl, then minor, had been the target of a first series of hundreds of hateful messages on social networks, forcing her to leave her school and to live under police protection.
Two of the defendants sentenced in July 2021 by the Paris Criminal Court for this “Lynching 2.0”, at the end of one of the very first hearings devoted to the new cyberbullying offense, had appealed.
The youngest of them, 20 years old, was sentenced Tuesday on appeal to two years’ imprisonment with a two -year probative suspended sentence, including the obligation to compensate the civil parties and to complete a citizenship internship. The Court found him guilty of aggravated harassment and death threats, a combination of qualifications that had not been retained at first instance. He was being prosecuted for having written in Mila in the fall of 2020 “Tell me you live in where I would make you a Samuel Paty (sic)”, by the name of Professor Decapité for having shown his students caricatures of Muhammad.
“threatening with death is a serious crime”
The other internet user, 31, received a one -year sentence of a suspended probationary stay for two years, comprising the same obligations as his co -country. The penalties are heavier than in the first instance: they had then been sentenced to six and four months suspended sentence respectively. The Court of Appeal also condemned them to solidarly pay 10,000 euros to Mila in compensation for her moral damage.
“What I felt at the hearing was that these two defendants had understood nothing about the gravity of what was accused of and had no regrets. Obviously the court had the same Feel since she quadrupled and tripled their sorrows, “said Mila’s lawyer, Richard Malka. “It is a judgment that will contribute, I hope, to make people aware that threatening with death is a serious crime,” he added.
The digital raid had started in January 2020 when Mila, then aged 16 and a half, responded to insults on social networks on her sexual orientation through a vehement video on Islam. She had attracted a new salvo of threats after the publication of a second controversial video, November 14, 2020: “that she bursts”, “you deserve to be slaughtered”, had written internet users.