Since her election last week, Martinican Angélique Angarni-Filopon has been the target of “hateful comments” online.
The organization of the competition “strongly condemns these comments” and undertakes to report them all “to the competent authorities”.
'Harassment and cyberharassment are punishable by law,' insists its president Frédéric Gilbert.
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Miss France 2025: Miss Martinique, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, crowned
She says stop. The Miss France Society is stepping up to defend its new beauty queen who, since her coronation a week earlier, “suffered a wave of harassment and hateful comments on social networks”. The organizers of the competition “strongly condemn these remarks” held against Angélique Angarni-Filopon, crowned Miss France 2025 at the Arena Futuroscope in Poitiers.
“These offensive comments have no place in our competition, nor in our society and will all be reported to the relevant authorities”underlines the text published on Instagram on Friday, suggesting that complaints would be filed.
“Harassment and cyberharassment are punishable by law”recalls Frédéric Gilbert, president of the Miss France Society. The first Martinique to be elected Miss France, Angélique Angarni-Filopon was notably the subject of racist attacks. The 34-year-old flight attendant explained to us that she “really stood out” of what could be said about her. “You were talking earlier about the stress that creeps up on me, it’s the same thing for the critics. I think it goes with age”she told us. “Afterwards, there will probably be days with and days without because unfortunately, some people tend to forget that behind a screen there is a real person”she added.
“Words touch you, so be careful and spend more time doing very good deeds rather than bad ones. Life will reward you, I swear!”launched Angélique Angarni-Filopon to her detractors. “Are we going to be entitled to it every year now? Last year, it was the haircut”was annoyed on Instagram by Diane Leyre, Miss France 2022, herself a victim of cyberharassment after her participation in Miss Universe last year. This is the second year in a row that the Miss Chosen has suffered from such an online hate campaign. Even Emmanuel Macron came to defend the Northerner Ève Gilles. Particularly marked by this episode, the 21-year-old young woman told us that this cyberharassment against her had been her scariest memory of the year.
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“Even if I don't understand what happened, we can potentially understand it because I am a public figure. But some people experience it when they have nothing to do with public figures. I admit that it bothers me “scared about today's society”she noted to TF1info in September. She has since decided to turn this experience into strength and to get involved with the e-Enfance association, at the origin of the number 3018, to fight against all forms of harassment. A sign that the complaints are succeeding, seven people were fined for anti-Semitic tweets targeting April Benayoum, Miss Provence, during the Miss France 2021 election in December 2020.
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