French woman on trial for "burqa assault"

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

French woman on trial for "burqa assault"
20 mins ago
Thierry Leveque

A French woman accused of ripping off the full face veil of an Emirati tourist and biting and scratching her when she put it back on faced prosecution demands for a two-month suspended prison sentence on Thursday.

"Co-habiting implies that we have to tolerate others whatever they are wearing," prosecutor Anne Fontette told a Paris court.

The case comes just days after the highest constitutional authority approved a bill outlawing the garment with offenders potentially fined 150 euros ($189) or required to take part in a citizenship class. The bill is due to take effect after a six-month period aimed at informing veiled women about the law.

The retired English teacher, known only as Marlene, had told police she asked the woman from the United Arab Emirates in English to remove the veil. When the woman refused, she ripped it off. When the woman put it back on again, she punched, scratched and bit her, according to the police report.





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[valerief]

1. Wow, a French teabagger! nt

[whathehell]

2. See?....and I bet you thought

it was just us "intolerant", "self-absorbed" Americans, didn't ya?:evilgrin:

[MisterP]

3. assaults like this occurred after the '05 school ban, as noted by Joan Wallach Scott

of course, proponents will say that anyone wearing "un-French" garb is assaulting and violating and provoking and threatening good tolerant French