France – Violence Erupts Over Police Check Of Veiled Muslim Woman

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    France – Six people were arrested after overnight violence that erupted in a Paris suburb after police checked the identity of a woman wearing a Muslim veil, French authorities said on Saturday.

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    Public disturbances have shaken depressed, largely immigrant quarters of major French cities at regular intervals for years, often triggered by resentment over spot police checks.

    It is illegal in France for women to wear full face veils in public but the law is contested in the mainly Muslim suburbs that ring major cities – where tensions reign in relations between residents and police.

    In Trappes, a gritty suburb southwest of Paris, police said a crowd gathered in response to the arrest on Thursday of a man who had assaulted a police officer during an identity check on his wife, who was entirely veiled.

    Some 250 people who collected outside the Trappes police station on Friday night threw stones and other projectiles and destroyed property before being repelled by riot police in the early hours of Saturday, a police statement said.

    A witness said the crowd called on police to release the husband but were “insulted” by authorities.

    “They (the police) didn’t want to listen and it got out of control,” the man, who gave his name as Sofiane, told iTele. “Trappes is a big family. When you attack us we’re going to respond.”

    Police said order was restored by daybreak in Trappes, an area of grim housing estates, but that reinforcements sent in overnight would remain in coming hours to help ensure calm.

    Authorities dealing with immigrant unrest fear a repeat of riots in 2005, France’s worst for 40 years, when nationwide violence led to the imposition of a state of emergency.

    In Trappes, as cleanup crews cleared away shattered glass from bus shelters, burned trash bins and stones littering the pavement, the chief administrator of the department (county) of Yvelines described the suburb as “calm and serene.”

    “We will maintain this calm in the coming hours,” Prefect Erard Corbin de Mangoux told journalists. “Police will stay put until we believe the threat is over.”


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    10 years ago

    viva la France

    VeyIzMir
    VeyIzMir
    10 years ago

    That’s what happens when you invite all the Arabs to your country. They take the Jews, who are generally law abiding citizens, and replace them with these. Enjoy them!

    10 years ago

    They were warned years ago that this would happen- keep letting in the primitives and your country will return to the Stone Age.

    I_Am_Me
    I_Am_Me
    10 years ago

    People don’t realize they don’t make the laws, they can influence them, but they don’t make them. If in your country it is forbidden to wear full veils, then stop wearing them or move. Now for all those who think I’m telling them to abandon their religion (I wish they would, the world would be a lot better without the Quran in it) I am not, I’m simply saying if you don’t like the laws you need to follow in a certain country, don’t live there.

    Yoin9
    Yoin9
    10 years ago

    Bring back the guillotine !and send them to heaven!

    honestbroker
    honestbroker
    10 years ago

    Great to finally wake up to story that brings a smile to my face .
    The French( and the rest of Western Europe) can enjoy their just deserts.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    10 years ago

    You chased the Jews out! Now live with your Moslem brothers.

    ShmutzVesh
    ShmutzVesh
    10 years ago

    What a bunch of ingrates!!! France should enjoy these leeches!!!

    takeittothem
    takeittothem
    10 years ago

    Here in New York City, I recently stood in line in a bank, and a veiled muslim woman stood in line for the teller. With her face totally covered, my question to all was what’s the point of banks having security cameras anymore?
    I wish America would follow in France’s footsteps and outlaw burkas in public.
    If this does not happen, I fear for a terrible terrorist attack on our banks

    Berel13
    Berel13
    10 years ago

    I wonder what would happen if Israel banned all fur shtreimls?