Miss Universe Morocco Contestant Faces Online Backlash Over Algeria Comments

Kawtar Benhalima is the target of attacks from Moroccan Internet users after posting a video in which she recounts the story of her Algerian grandmother, a refugee in Morocco, and who passed on her sewing know-how to some Moroccans.

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This video, which went viral on social networks, carried a message of brotherhood between the Moroccan and Algerian peoples. Unfortunately, the first runner-up of Miss Universe Morocco 2021 was misunderstood or at least her words were misinterpreted by Moroccan Internet users.

Some of them even went so far as to set up a petition to demand her dismissal and her replacement by the second runner-up.