PARIS – The former Femen Amina was attacked in the Paris subway by a group of Salafis last July. She herself admitted it in a letter to the daily Libération: “I posted that message, forgetting I was Amina Sboui. It was a request for help for my friends, my loved ones, it was not aimed at the press or the police. problem – the young woman writes – is that there are so many journalists who follow me, who have begun to call me and write about it.
I could no longer say it was a lie “.

On July 7, the twenty-year-old Tunisian, who became a symbol of the secular protest against Islamic fundamentalism, and now resident in Paris, had told on her Facebook profile that she had been forcibly dragged out of the station in Place de Clichy, not far from the neighborhood of Pigalle. He had told her five men “Salafi”, threatened her with a knife, shaving her eyebrows and a lock of hair. The young woman had also gone to file a complaint in the police station.

But since the scene was not recorded by the subway surveillance cameras, the cops quickly suspected he was lying. “There were people who did not believe me, but also many who defended me. I could not say that I had lied, it was too difficult. I was afraid of disappointing them. I know that this lie – adds Amina – discredits the word of the victims of violence sexist and fundamentalism “.

Amina will have to appear before the judges for having denounced “an imaginary crime” on October 8th.