Less than a month after her coronation, Angélique Angarni-Filopon is already having her first big scandal. On January 8, 2025, his comments on Charlie Hebdo provoked a wave of outraged reactions. Like Julien Odoul, of the National Rally, many did not understand why the beauty queen did not want to declare that she was Charlie, on the air on Sud Radio.
“Mmmm, I can’t say anything” she explained to Gilles Ganzmann. And while he insisted “But you could say yes. Do you think that in France we have the right to blasphemy, to freedom of expression?”she concluded: “I prefer not to comment. Nope…”
Miss France hits back after a wave of criticism
Unsurprisingly, once the far-right MP took up the information on the Web, the comments came in bursts. We could read in particular “A shame, “She’s not my Miss France“, “And that represents France”, “Soon NFP candidate”, “She should be stripped of her title!”
Or again: “Miss LFI”, “A woke miss elected by a woke jury on a woke channel and all on the left”. And finally, this January 10, 2025, Angélique Angarni-Filopon came out of silence to provide details.
Regarding her time on the radio, she explained: “Maybe it was clumsy but in my role as Miss France, I owe myself neutrality on certain subjects to avoid any misunderstandings and arouse any controversies.
And to add: “But I understand that my non-reaction on such a sensitive subject could have generated so many comments”. To those who exaggerated her words, she assured: “Obviously it would be an aberration to think that I could condone such barbaric acts which leave families in mourning“.
She condemns attacks on freedom
Ten years after the terrible attack on the satirical newspaper, which left twelve dead and eleven injured, four of them seriously, Angélique Angarni-Filopon chose her words. Indeed, on January 7, 2015, it was not only the five cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Honoré, Tignous and Wolinski who were targeted by the Chérif brothers and Saïd Kouachi with a Kalashnikov.
She confided: “Charlie Hebdo touches on profound issues and obviously, freedom of expression is essential in France.” In fact, she concluded: “I strongly condemn these terrorist acts which are an attack on the fundamental values of our society, including freedom, tolerance and respect”.
