Following the cyberstalking trial held in early June, Hoshi received a racist, homophobic and inciting message to rape and suicide that she decided to share to “show (her) daily life for three years” . The Internet user utters an incalculable number of insults in a message strewn with spelling mistakes, while specifying at the end that he does not even know her.
As she explains in the letter read by her lawyer during the trial, it all started with the release of her song Album censure where she evokes the fight against homophobia. Nominated for the Victoires de la Musique 2020, the interpreter of Ta marinière performs on stage and kisses a dancer at the end of her performance. “I received thousands of messages filled with homophobic insults, death threats, rape threats and so on,” she testified afterwards.
Forced to move out of fear that her cyberstalkers will find her address, she no longer dares to go out on the street alone and makes her rounds with a lump in her stomach. “I’m clearly in constant danger and I won’t hide from you that it’s tiring sometimes. These attacks of hatred even worsen her disease, which is affected by Ménière’s crises which are manifested by vertigo, progressive loss of hearing and tinnitus.
“Behind my face, there is a committed artist, but above all there is a young woman who is suffering and who has lived in fear for more than three years. The singer filed a complaint in 2020 for “moral and sexual harassment in packs”, “aggravated insults”, “death and rape threats” and “incitement to hatred”. “I cling to the music and the people who love me, but this time I would like to cling to the justice system of my country, which must no longer turn a blind eye to the seriousness of such acts,” she said. on Twitter account. Justice had identified six attackers, including an adult who was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, including six months suspended probation, on June 2.
“I keep checking my messages from time to time because I want to keep this connection with you,” she says. I get all your love but I have to take all this hate for myself. “The 26-year-old artist, who has just released an acronym entitled Mauvais rêve from her next album Cœur Parapluie, assures us that she will “continue to sing even louder. I love you, thank you for all your love,” she wrote.
