The company which manages the competition defends Miss France 2025, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, victim of hateful comments, and declares that it will rely “on the competent authorities”.
Faced with the hateful comments directed at Angélique Angarni-Filopon, Miss France 2025 elected on December 14, the management of the beauty contest is speaking out. The president of the Miss France Society, Frédéric Gilbert, published a press release on Friday, December 20, in which he “condemns” the comments made and announces legal measures.
“Since her election, (Angélique Angarni-Filopon) has suffered a wave of harassment and hateful comments on social networks,” he wrote in this message published as a story on Instagram.
“The Miss France Society strongly condemns these comments,” he added. “These offensive comments have no place in our competition, nor in our society, and will all be reported to the appropriate authorities.” And to conclude with a reminder: “Harassment and cyberharassment are punishable by law.”
“Insulting, even racist comments”
Angélique Angarni-Filopon, who won the election as Miss Martinique, herself spoke about the offensive comments to which she was the subject. In a video for the Marie Claire site, the 34-year-old young woman notably returned to three Internet users who had filmed themselves after her coronation: we could see one of them qualifying the beauty queen's skin color as “disability”:
“I absolutely do not blame these three young girls but, unfortunately, I will have to make some decisions,” she announced half-heartedly.
Because Angélique Angarni-Filopon also faces racist comments, according to TV Mag. The media notably recalls the wave of hatred which fell on the new Miss France after her interview with Bruno Guillon on the Fun Radio morning show, two days after her coronation.
“It was with shock and pain that I discovered certain hateful comments on our networks against the new Miss France,” the host published on Instagram immediately.
“At a time when we are trying to protect children from cyberharassment, I cannot bear the offensive, even racist, comments on this page (…) These comments (…) will therefore all be reported to the competent authorities , because cyberharassment is today punishable by law.”
Controversy among the candidates
This wave of insulting comments even generated unease within the 2025 class of Miss France, when Internet users noticed that Sabah Aïb's little sister, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais who came second in the competition, had -even relays denigrating videos towards Angélique Angarni-Filopon on TikTok.
“My little sister made the mistake of republishing a mocking TikTok about our Miss France, which she deeply regrets,” Sabah Aïb wrote on social networks, as reported by La Voix du Nord. “She was disappointed and emotional, and while this in no way justifies her action, she quickly realized her mistake and deleted it. Unfortunately, these TikToks were perceived as racist by some people , which we strongly condemn.”
Recurring controversy
Sabah Aïib herself was the victim of racist comments after her election as Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The 18-year-old student, of Algerian and Moroccan origin, spoke on this subject in Le Parisien:
“My parents and my grandparents were born in France. I have never had the slightest racist remark in my life, until this election. I did not expect that. I was not prepared for it. I've taken a step back, but words have an impact.”
In November 2021, seven people were convicted for anti-Semitic tweets which targeted April Benayoum, Miss Provence 2020, on the evening of the Miss France election.
