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A Paris court examines this Monday a demand for “public insult” against the leader of the French extreme right, Marine Le Pen, presented by a Italian of Moroccan origin which he assimilated to “radical Islam” for wear a veil when she won an award for “Young European of the Year” in 2019.
The plaintiff, Yasmine Ouirhrane, He was 23 years old and was studying at the Sciences Po University of Bordeaux, in France, when the events reported as “public insult based on origin, ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.”
When in 2019 the Schwarzkopf Foundation distinguished her as the “Young European of the Year” she appeared in a photograph wearing the veil and in her hand a large flag of the European Union, Le Pen denounced on her networks that the institution was making a “promotion of radical Islam” in the EU.
Ouirhrane was awarded for “her commitment to gender equality and equal opportunities for migrants in Europe”, according to the jury, and the prize included the possibility of doing an internship in a European or international institution.
He received this award for coordinating, among other things, the 2018 edition of YOFest, a European festival of debates and exchanges for young people. Thanks to the search for sponsors, he managed to get two delegations from disadvantaged neighborhoods to participate in this festival, which brought together almost 8,000 young people in Strasbourg.
The young woman celebrated her first award with a tweet in which he appeared with a photo accompanied by the European flag.
That publication outraged Marine Le Pen, who denounced it as a “promotion of radical Islam” in the European Union, because the young woman was wearing a headscarf in the photo.
In several interviews, Ouirhrane explained that she was the victim of an intense campaign of harassment after Le Pen’s tweet on social media and that in some comments she was even associated with jihadism.
Born in Biella, a city in northern Italy, to a Moroccan father who arrived in the country in the 1990s and an Italian woman, the family moved to Grenoble (France) when she was 15 years old, where she discovered her passion for French literature and later entered the prestigious Sciences Po.
Es polyglot (she speaks French, Italian, Arabic, Spanish and English) and was recognized as a “Young Leader for Gender Equality” in 2018 by the New York organization Woman Deliver.