The minister chargeable for the struggle towards discrimination, Aurore Bergé, requested Dilcrah to report back to the general public prosecutor for the feedback made by Poupette Kenza, well-known Instagram and Tiktok influencer.
The Dilcrah, a authorities physique for the struggle towards discrimination, introduced Thursday to check with the general public prosecutor “anti-Semitic remarks” made on social networks by the influencer Poupette Kenza.
“On the request of Minister Aurore Bergé, Dilcrah stories to the general public prosecutor the anti-Semitic remarks made by this influencer on her social networks,” indicated on and anti-LGBT hatred).
In a video message, the influencer with greater than 1,000,000 subscribers on Instagram mentioned on Wednesday: “I’m pro-Palestinian, I don’t work for any Zionist or Jewish individual (…) I’ve no companion, no agent who’s Jewish.
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In a second video, she then claimed to have “expressed herself poorly” and to have “corrected” her remarks. “I’ve nothing towards the Jews (..) I simply have towards the Zionists and those that finance the genocide, those that finance this bloodbath,” she added.
His account was inaccessible early Thursday followingnoon on the social community Instagram, which didn’t reply to requests from AFP. Nevertheless, it’s nonetheless accessible on the Tiktok platform.
Thursday the minister chargeable for the struggle towards discrimination Aurore Bergé estimated on the X platform that “boycotting ladies and men due to their identification or faith is clearly unlawful”. “Confronted with anti-Semitism, racism, I cannot let something go,” she added, instructing the Dilcrah to make a report.
The Union of Jewish College students of France (UEJF) additionally introduced on X that it was submitting a criticism “for incitement to hatred and discrimination”. “Such hateful remarks broadcast to greater than 1,000,000 subscribers endanger Jews,” based on the affiliation.
The president of the United Jewish Social Fund (FSJU) Ariel Goldmann noticed this as “proof that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are one and the identical”.
“We should act shortly in order that social networks are now not the sounding board for anti-Semitism, notably among the many youngest,” mentioned the collective We are going to dwell, born the day following the bloody assault by Hamas towards Israel on October 7.
Poupette Kenza, whose actual identify is Kenza Benchrif, is among the hottest influencers on French social networks.
She was arrested in 2023 by the Fraud Repression for misleading business practices, following having promoted a tooth whitener banned in France. She had agreed to pay 50,000 euros as a part of a “prison transaction”.
