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Sunday, May 25, 2025
Mia Schem wears hostages pin on Cannes red carpet as she comes to raise awareness
Freed hostage Mia Schem walked the red carpet at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night, where she wore a yellow hostages pin.
Schem was invited to the event by the Jewish community of Cannes to raise awareness of the plight of the hostages still held in Gaza. While there, she also spoke before the Nice city council.
At the ceremony, Schem says she was prevented by security from wearing a ribbon with the message “Bring Them Home Now.”
“I came to support the struggle to bring back the hostages. Unfortunately, at the entrance to the red carpet, the festival organizers confiscated the ribbon I was supposed to wear. I refused to concede. I took a yellow hostage pin from one of the delegation members and wore it on my dress,” she says.
Mia Schem, ex-otage du Hamas, kidnappée le 7 octobre 2023 pendant le festival Nova (libérée le 30 novembre 2023, après 54 jours de captivité) était présente pour le dernier tapis rouge de cette 78e édition du Festival de Cannes.
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