Sabah Aib would never have imagined facing a torrent of hatred upon his accession to the title of Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Five days after his coronation,
racist comments swept across social networks. Their authors categorically refuse to
“see a North African woman elected Miss France”.
Although she has Algerian origins on her father's side and Moroccan origins on her mother's side, the young woman aged 18 felt obliged to justify herself: “I was born in France just like my parents. We consider ourselves above all to be French. My origins are part of my history, but they do not define who I am.”. The downpour, however, did not stop.
Miss France 2025: politics to the rescue of Sabah Aib
After the Miss France committee, it is the turn of a political figure to bring his support for candidate for
Miss France 2025 competition. The affair took a new turn on October 25 thanks to the intervention of the Secretary of State for the Fight against Discrimination,
Othman Nasrou.
“I asked DILCRAH
[Délégation interministérielle à la lutte contre le racisme,
l’antisémitisme et la haine anti-LGBT, ndlr] de make a report to the Public Prosecutor following the surge of racist hatred against Ms. Sabah Aib, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais”announced this via the X network (formerly Twitter). The politician promises not to let “nothing pass”.
Miss France: this other beauty queen targeted by haters
Sabah Aib is not the first beauty queen to bear the brunt of xenophobic comments. In 2020,
April Benayoum had been targeted by anti-Semitic tweets during the Miss France ceremony broadcast live on TF1. “Miss Provence is Israeli, this female dog”,” I vote against the Jew”, “Too much hatred that the representative of my region is a feuj”we could notably read about X.
A year later, seven internet usersincluding four women and three men, were condemned in Paris for these anti-Semitic messages. The prosecutor had requested two-month suspended prison sentences against the defendants. The court ultimately ordered them to settle
fines ranging from 300 to 800 eurosin addition to paying 1 euro in damages to April Benayoum as well as to various associations (SOS-Racisme, MRAP, LDH, Licra, UEJF).
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