(AFP) Paris prosecutors said Monday they were investigating online threats against female Afghan taekwondo fighter Marzieh Hamidi, who fled to France in 2021 after the Taliban seized power in Kabul.
Hamidi had suffered “cyber-harassment including death, rape and other threats via social media,” the prosecutors said.
They added that a specialist online hate unit was investigating.
“I want the terrorists threatening me with death to be identified and tried in court, so that I can live freely without fear and in full safety,” Hamidi said in a statement sent to AFP.
The martial artist “has been placed under police protection for an indefinite period,” said her [lawyer] Ines Davau, adding that “we hope the perpetrators of the threats will be swiftly identified.”
