Posted on 07/20/2013 7:15:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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.
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.
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Metaphorically, bomb collars on hostages. Might not end well.
You’re right. Embarassing for America that they (and they’re notthe only country either) who are now more American than here in the good old USA.
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