A painful beginning of the reign for Julie Decroix. The new Missia, 20, who was born in Dakar and grew in Blotzheim in Haut-Rhin, is the objective of many racist and hateful comments on social networks due to her color of the skin of her coronation on June 26.
At the end of June, SOS Racisme Alsacia announced that he had made a report with the prosecution of Strasbourg, to denounce these “racist insults, abject and unacceptable attacks” that “remember how much racism remains a violent and insidious reality in our society.”
“We were deeply shocked and outraged by the racist comments of which Julie Decroix was the victim. (…) No human being should have to suffer such insults for what he or her is,” said the association in a press release published on Facebook.
“We are proud to represent our region”
According to the local newspaper Alsace’s latest news (DNA), SOS Racisme’s report has returned to the Office of the Prosecutor of Strasbourg, which has left the case to transmit it to the Paris prosecutor’s office. Since then, the survey has been entrusted to the National Pole to combat hatred online (NLP).
“Things are taken seriously,” said the assistant prosecutor of the Judicial Court of Strasbourg, Agnès Robine, with DNA.
A first -year student of Psychology at the University of Strasbourg, Julie Decroix, does not intend to present a complaint to “stay focused on their goals” to win the Miss France crown next December.
“Before that, I had never faced racism,” he told Liberation.
Contacted by Latest news from Alsacia, However, Missia’s committee does not exclude the possibility of fileing a complaint. “We are still very attentive. This story offers a bad image of Alsace and Alsatians. It is unfortunate. We are proud to represent our region,” said the delegate of the Regional Committee Sylvie Zimmermann.
Two other Miss 2024 goals
Miss France 2025, Angélique Angerni-Filopon, was also the objective of violent attacks against racist suggestions in her physique, on social networks since her choice in December 2024.
A few days after his coronation, Frédéric Gilbert had spoken in a statement to condemn “A wave of harassment and hateful comments“Suffered by Miss France 2025 and announced that all abusive messages would be” reported to the competent authorities. “
The first runner-up of Miss France 2025, Sabah AIB, who had represented Nord-Pas-de-Calais, had also said that he had been the victim of racist attacks on social networks, due to his Magreb origins.
The Secretary of State responsible for the fight against discrimination, Othman Nasrou, had asked the interminiisterial delegation to the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred to make a report to the public prosecutor.
Source: BFM TV
