Thursday, 20 September 2012



Veiled Marseille woman who bit policewoman now in jail

16:43 20 SET 2012 

(AGI) Marseille - The 18-year-old veiled Marseille woman who bit a policewoman who had stopped her for violating France's anti-burqa laws in July, has now been sentenced to 2 months in prison. According to police reports, the girl whose face was totally covered, had refuse to cooperate with the policewoman who had asked to see her ID, and had bitten her hand. The girl instead has said that when questioned immediately after the incident on the night of July 25th, the police had been brutal asking her to "remove that s****". "They threw me to the ground and put a hand over my mouth," she said. This version was denied by the police who explained that they had politely ask to see her papers and the girls had screamed in Arabic, "I don't care about the laws of the Republic." The girl will now appear in court in Lille on October 30 to answer charges of violence, insulting a public official, rioting and inciting others to riot. (AGI) .
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