Black sweater, long brown hair tied in a ponytail, the petite Sorenza D., 19, was unable to get a lawyer in time for the hearing. It is therefore alone that she tries to explain in front of the 10e correctional chamber of the Paris court why, in November 2020, she published a message on Twitter saying, about Mila D.: “If one day I come across this girl, I’ll kill her with my own hands. »
Jumbled up, she says that she then used Twitter as a “unwind”, evokes an abusive father, recounts his own harassment for having published a “artistic make-up” which earned him « messages [lui] saying of [se] hang »and, above all, the fact that she thought that Mila would not “wouldn’t see [son] tweet », that she herself had ” forgot “, until the gendarmes come to take her into custody. Sorenza D., tears in her eyes, will be the only defendant to apologize to Mila.
Like five other people, only two of whom, in addition to her, are present at the hearing, she is dismissed for having – like thousands of other Internet users – insulted and threatened the young blonde woman with death. A second wave, when Mila had already been threatened since January 2020 for having criticized Islam in vehement messages on Instagram.
But when, on November 14, for “resist those who [la] harassed”, she concludes an Instagram video by launching: “Last thing, watch your mate Allah, please. ‘Cause my fingers in her asshole, I still haven’t taken them out the nightmare resumes. “You have to smoke it. go bitch, writes Timothy, also barely of age. “Let her die”tweets Fatem B., a 39-year-old mother.
“Scapegoat for all our cowardice”
Both had the greatest difficulty in justifying their remarks at the bar, claiming not to have measured their scope, nor the impact they could have on the young woman. His lawyer, Mr.e Richard Malka, undertakes to remind them of this in his argument. “We see the controversy in TT [« trending topic », les tendances du moment sur Twitter], so we cast our stone, there are small, medium and large »he describes, spinning the metaphor of lynching. “Their messages were part of a global digital stoning”or “every word is a stone and hurts him”.
Stones, there were “more than 100,000”which Mila’s mother has “read every day for two years”describes Me Malka. Out of school, the girl, “scapegoat for all our cowardice”, insists the lawyer, has just celebrated his 18th birthday, under permanent police protection for two years. “Their messages, she plays them over and over again. For them, it’s stupidity, for her, it’s torture., continues Richard Malka, before telling an anecdote: Mila would like to have a dog. But “It’s not possible, the police told him: ‘You can’t, you have to walk him every day, we risk knowing where you live.’ » Sitting very straight on her bench, her eyes unfocused, Mila, crying silently, gets up to retrieve the handkerchief handed out by her mother.
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