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Hoshi denounces a new wave of homophobic cyberbullying

The French singer denounces the homophobic, and sometimes threatening, comments she receives on social networks.

Hoshi is once again the target of hateful comments on social media. On Wednesday, May 23, the singer published on X (formerly Twitter) some of the homophobic and sometimes threatening comments received in recent days.

“For a photo with a rainbow and an (LGBT) flag at a festival, I still receive it 4 days later,” he laments in the caption.

At the origin of this avalanche of insults, a photo posted on Facebook by the interpreter of Your sailor shirt the 17th of May. We see the artist on stage at the Papillons de nuit Festival brandishing an LGBT flag as two rainbows emerge over the crowd of spectators.

“It is May 17 and it is World LGBTphobia Day. I think the sky was on our side tonight,” she wrote to accompany the photo.

“Threats of committing an attack”

Hoshi had already raised the alarm on Monday, May 20, by transmitting a first series of hate comments generated by his publication. “I’m going through hell,” he wrote:

“In France in 2024 we will be able to publicly comment on publications with homophobic comments, death threats, threats to commit an attack,” denounced the 27-year-old artist.

“I delete comments and block them again and again but they exist and there are malicious people behind these accounts who may one day take action,” he also worries. “There is no moderation and I know very well that if I file a complaint it will be months, even years, before one or two people are brought to justice.”

“Fear in the belly”

The singer speaks from experience. On February 14, 2020, Hoshi performed his title. censored love on the Victoires de la Musique stage and concluded his performance by kissing one of his dancers.

This sequence had earned him countless hate messages, lesbophobic insults and death threats. Hoshi filed a complaint a month later.

The police investigation identified eight accounts at the origin of these messages. Six people were identified and, among them, only one adult.

“In addition to harassing me, we were trying to find my address,” the singer revealed in a letter read at the trial of her harasser, in June 2023, three years later. She explained that she had since moved three times and stated that she had also revealed the address of her parents. The young woman stated that she “had never gone out alone on the street” and had taken “a journey in fear”, accompanied by a bodyguard.

The trial concluded with the sentencing of a cyberbully to eight months in prison, including two months in prison. A few days later, the young woman was already receiving new threats.

Author: Benjamin Pierret


Source: BFM TV

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