Her name is Sabah Aib. Saturday September 19, she was elected Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais, a region that she will represent in the election of Miss France 2025 next December. Less than a week later, she denounced the wave of racist comments to which she was the subject.
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Blonde curls, clear eyes, dazzling smile, Sabah Aib exudes the joy of living. But every day, she receives tons of insults. In the update that she published on her Instagram account, she explains that her name Sabah Aib is part of her identity. She was born in France, just like her parents and they all consider themselves first and foremost French. “ My origins are part of my history, but they do not define who I am », Adds the young woman, whose parents have Moroccan and Algerian origins.
“ It’s revolting. This is not surprising both because racist hatred has been released in unimaginable proportions since Jordan Bardella was announced as the winner of the legislative elections and that he had been announced as the future Prime Minister. At that time we had an extreme release of racist speech, which was unprecedented in July and it has not subsided », underlines Samuel Thomas, president of the House of Friends.
Four years ago, it was Miss Provence, April Benayoum who was the victim of anti-Semitism and had eight people convicted the following year. Last year, it was his short hair and his thinness that earned insulting messages to Eve Gilles, the current Miss France.
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