Macron Defends Teen’s Right to Criticize Religion Amid Online Harassment

"In this debate, we have lost sight of the fact that Mila is a teenager," said President Macron, questioned about the controversial Mila case. "She is therefore owed protection at school, in her daily life, in her travels. The State has taken its responsibilities," he added.

President Emmanuel Macron thus defends Mila and insists on the protection of children against "new forms of online hatred and harassment," stressing that "the republican order is not the moral order. What is prohibited is the incitement to hatred, the attack on dignity."

Faced with the threats, the Minister of National Education has taken measures for her return to school. Mila is the girl from the Isère region who had to leave her local high school after receiving death threats on social media due to remarks hostile to Islam. The case has been the talk of the news due to the intervention of political actors, mainly from the far right.