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April Benayoum, 21, mentioned in a television interview that she is the daughter of an Israeli. During the contest, she was discriminated against on Twitter.
Miss Provence and Vice-Miss France: April Benayoum.
Photo: AFP
The Paris prosecutor said he has launched an investigation into anti-Semitic comments against the runner-up of the Miss France 2021 competition, April Benayoum. In her research on public racist slurs and ethnic hate speech, she seeks to locate the authors of the comments on the Internet. French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that he was “deeply shocked by the anti-Semitic insults.” The police had been ordered to investigate.
Benayoum has Israeli roots. The 21-year-old finished second in the beauty pageant that was televised on Saturday. After discussing her origins as the daughter of an Israeli in an on-set interview, she became a victim of discrimination on Twitter. The Holocaust was mentioned in tweets.
Benayoum told the French newspaper “Var-Matin” that it was “sad to witness such behavior in 2020.” She condemned these comments, but they did not affect her at all, according to Miss Provence. He has received countless messages of support. Benayum and anti-racism groups filed a lawsuit.
The Council of Jewish Representative Institutions of France asked on Twitter to “take responsibility.” The social media moderators would have taken too long to delete the comments.
French Minister of Citizenship Affairs Marlène Schiappa said the investigation was “a strong message” for victims of such abuse. Hate speech on the Internet “is not harmless.”
